Using Your Gifts to Serve

Pastor Pat McCalla · Aug 10, 2020

Jesus' declaration in Matthew 16:18 that He would build His 'ecclesia' — a gathering of called-out people — frames everything Paul teaches about spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12. Because the Holy Spirit indwells every believer, He also equips each one with a specific, divinely chosen gift. Those gifts are not personal possessions to be hoarded or ranked; they are given to the gathered body so that every part functions together, interdependent like a human body, advancing a movement that not even the gates of hell can stop.