Bible Study with Pastor Ryan: Episode 4

So, you know, as I was praying and thinking about what to share with you all today, I was in this conference and we were talking a little bit about spiritual gifts and spiritual gifts are what God gives us in the realm of how we are able to lead others and shepherd and take care of others.

And so there's different spiritual gifts there.

There's stuff like leadership, there's administrative gift, but there's a bunch of different gifts that we are all given by God, and how we utilize those gifts to help bring people to the kingdom are pretty massive.

And we started going through some verses, and during this one verse that they shared, which I'm gonna share with you here in a moment, What was really sticking out to me in that is that we are all one body under Christ, and we are all one church.

When I think more about that, there's so many different things that we have.

We have different skills, different abilities that a lot of people may not necessarily notice right away, but also any abilities that we are told that we have to have by society.

And if we don't have that, then we are not valued.

And when I kept thinking about that, I was thinking like how God consistently has built us and he knew exactly how we were going to be.

And he still loves us in those moments.

And he still wants to pour into us consistent as long as we are open to it.

But we have value.

Every single one of us has value.

It doesn't matter what's been done to us.

It doesn't matter what we've done to others as far as how valuable we are to God.

And so we obviously don't want to hurt others.

We obviously don't want to do something to others that takes away from that spirit.

And obviously if something's done to us in those moments that can drive us away, we know that God still loves us and he has a greater plan for us as long as we continue driving towards him.

And so when we talk about the church body, You know, I've worked with a lot of people that just say, I don't feel like I belong.

I don't feel like I'm valued.

And there's always something that comes along with that.

And so this verse I want to read, and we'll talk a little bit about it, really will help tie this all together, how we're all one.

So this verse comes from 1 Corinthians.

So, It's a letter that I think Paul had ended up writing to, I think we actually talked a little bit about this last week in the love verse, what Paul was writing in that moment.

It's the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians.

And so in this section right here, he's talking a little bit about spiritual gifts.