Using Your Gifts From God
Your Purpose
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
What is a gift you have enjoyed?
What is a gift you have given?
Text Questions
What is the purpose of spiritual gifts?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:-1-3
What stuck out to you?
What was the problem?
What is a mute idol?
What do we learn about speaking by the Spirit?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
What stuck out to you?
What do we learn about how the Spirit works?
What are some of the differences?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-14
What stuck out to you?
What do we learn about the body of Christ?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:15-24
What stuck out to you?
What is the purpose of the teaching here?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:24-27
What stuck out to you?
What do we learn about the purpose of the different parts of the body?
What do we learn about unity in the church?
Personal Questions
Are you listening to God on a daily basis?
Do you know what your spiritual gift is?
If you know your spiritual gift, are you using it regularly?
Do you feel like an important part of the mission of the church?
How could you grow in this area?
Application
Ask God for Wisdom
Seek to know what God has gifted you to do
Encourage others in what you see God doing in their life
Verses
1 Corinthians 12:1-3
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
4 Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are different activities, but the same God works all of them in each person. 7 A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good: 8 to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit, 9 to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another, the performing of miracles,to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of tongues, to another, interpretation of tongues. 11 One and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.
1 Corinthians 12:12-14
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
1 Corinthians 12:15-24
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment.
1 Corinthians 12:24-27
But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
