Discover Your Gifts!
"Your body has many parts-limbs, organs, cells-but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ." "I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, 'I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body,' would that make it so? If Ear said, 'I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head,' would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all Eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where He wanted it. But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a PART of." "The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church; every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into exuberance. You are Christ's body-that's who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your "part" mean anything."
-- I Cor 12:12-16
The image of the body is simple...it simply says that I cannot be me without you and you cannot be you without me. We are not the same, but we are an essential part of one another...
Feel free to download our spiritual SHAPE assessment. In it, we'll help you process how you might "fit" in the body of Christ. The idea of SHAPE is that it measures 5 distinct areas: Spiritual Gift, Heart, Abilities, Personality, and Experiences. The unique combination of these 5 aspects of your life define your uniqueness and might, hopefully, help you discover how you best fit in our church "body."
After you complete the assessment, feel free to send the results along to Frank at liuclan6@gmail.com and I'll send along a quick explanation of what the Assessment revealed!
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