Rejoicing in the Lord and Embracing Spiritual Gifts

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "What are you frustrated about? What are you stressed about right now? Rejoice in the Lord. What's going through your mind? What situation are you getting ready to jump into at work? Rejoice in the Lord. That's where we get our Old Testament word, Hallelujah, from. Where we just begin to praise God and say, Even though everything is going on around me, it's crazy. Y'all realize it's been a couple crazy weeks in America? Are y'all paying attention? It's been a wild ride. And despite all of it, we can do what Paul told us, to rejoice in the Lord." [22:42] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "We don't know tomorrow, but we know our Savior. That's why we can rejoice. Because regardless of what our 401k, our pension, our job security, regardless of what any of that looks like, we can rejoice because you're still in charge. So God, today we rejoice. Even when we're in the middle of things, just like Paul writing that, the middle of prison. Yet, he still rejoiced because he chose to keep. He chose to keep the spiritual things top of mind. And may we do that today, God. We keep you on the forefront of our mind, not all the other stuff." [24:01] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Jesus comes first, and we want to see every single person here continue to mature in their faith. That's why we have these church services. That's the goal of everything. And we're glad you're here. If this is your first time with us, you're our special guest. So we're really excited you're here." [25:05] (13 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "God gives spiritual gifts to strengthen his church to then accomplish his kingdom purposes. So what God has done, and we'll take our church, for example, he said, alright, our church, I'm gonna give each of you spiritual gifts. We're like a church body. What is the purpose of those gifts that we just read about to strengthen this church body? What happens when we get strong as a church body? We accomplish God's purposes." [42:14] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Spiritual gifts are only as good as a believer's commitment to the common good. Why? Because if you don't have a commitment to the common good, then you really have no reason to even use your gifts. In fact, what you'll actually do is you'll use your spiritual gifts for yourself. We have to get back to this heart. The early church, the early Acts church, these early churches that we read about in Corinthians, some of them got it, some of them didn't. We have to get back to this idea of the common good." [50:08] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "If the purpose of the gifts is the common good and we've lost the common good, then we're really not going to see any functional reason for even using our gifts. Because that's the whole reason. That's the reason God gave them to us, for the common good. But if we don't value the common good, then our gifts really don't even matter that much. And our gifts will actually become about us. Because the reason we were given the gifts were for the common good." [45:05] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "In order for us to use the gifts God's given us to fulfill the plan God has for our church, we have to embrace this mindset of the common good. So let me ask you today, just on a personal level, have I embraced a common good or self-interest mindset? Where are you at today? Nobody else is answering the question for you. It's just between you and the Lord. Have I embraced a common good or have I embraced a self-interest mindset?" [52:08] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "God gives his church a variety of spiritual gifts for our common good. What you notice about God is God is all about variety. And as we're going to look at this gift list in just a moment, it's unbelievably diverse. It's beautiful. You know, when we get to heaven, I got news for you. It's not just going to be one race. It's not going to be just Indian people or black people or white people or however you want to phrase things. It's going to be diverse. The same way, the gifts of God are diverse." [53:45] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "In order to accomplish God's plans for this church, he has given us a litany of different gifts. And we have to be okay and be willing to honor the gifts that may not even make sense to us. That is the beauty of Christ. I've seen so many churches over the years. This is, just quickly, this is just how it works. People that are kind of prophetic in nature tend to all gravitate towards one. Because they all kind of speak the same language. And that's beautiful. But what about all the other churches that God has ordained for those people to be in there?" [01:05:44] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "What gifts has God given you? If someone wants to ask you that question, could you answer it now? You're like, well, yeah, kind of. I hope you could. Somebody asked that question. These are what I believe are my spiritual gifts. And here's the most important question to follow, which is this. How will you use them for the church? That's what I want you to talk about this week. Talk to your spouse about it. Talk to a friend. How can I use my gifts that God has given me for his church?" [01:16:34] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)