Getting Into the Game with My Gifting

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Getting into the Game with my Gifting
Pastor Aaron Sutherland  

SERIES SCRIPTURE:

Ephesians 4:11-13 11 "He gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers.  His purpose was to equip God’s people for the work of serving and building up the body of Christ  until we all reach the unity of faith and knowledge of God’s Son. God’s goal is for us to become mature adults—to be fully grown, measured by the standard of the fullness of Christ."

I. WE GET INTO THE GAME WHEN WE DISCOVER OUR GIFTS
Matthew 25:14-15 "For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away."
 

II. WE GET INTO THE GAME WHEN WE DEVELOP OUR GIFTS
Matthew 25:16-21 "He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.  Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’  His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’  And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’  His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’"
 

III. WE GET INTO THE GAME WHEN WE DEPLOY OUR GIFTS
Matthew 25:24-28 "He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,  so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground.Here, you have what is yours.’  But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?  Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.  So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.  For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."
 

QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION

1. What has God used to help you discover your gifts?
2. How have you seen God use a well developed gift more powerfully than an underdeveloped gift? What are steps you could take today to see some of your gifts developed?
3. What would it look like for you to deploy your gifts further into God’s kingdom?