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Arrivals and Departures: The Church as an Airport
Jon Wright
9th Jan 2005
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Departure does not have to mean ‘The End’
• People depart from Churches to new places / positions, sometimes happily and sometimes without the blessing of the Pastor
• Sometimes people come back but perhaps to a different position
• They can leave holes behind them• One man’s hole is another’s opportunity!
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Departure and Arrival are often linked together
• Arrival can be someone moving between Churches - they arrive in the new Church - perhaps to do something different there
• Arrival can mean someone in the Church steps up to take the position that has been left as a hole
• Arrival can mean someone taking a new position where before there was none
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Arrivals and Departures: Free Gifts from God to help
in Arrival• God has gifts for each and every person - John
3:16 for example promises the gift of life• God has gifts that are given to individuals - Rom
12:6-8 (prophecy, serving, teaching, encouraging, leading, showing mercy etc), 1Cor 12:7-10 (wisdom, healing, discernment, tongues, etc)
• Different Christians are given different gifts as different parts of the Church - Eph 4:11 (five-fold: apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher)
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Gifts are given for the benefit of the Church not the individual
• Parable of the Talents - Matt 25:14-30 (two servants invest their 5 and 2 talents and are commended, the third servant hides his 1 talent instead and is throw outside)
• Gifts are like seeds, they need to develop, be cared for
• Gifts can be taken back if not used, or not used correctly
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Use of Gifts - 1 Cor 12-14.
• They are to be used in love• They are for the profit of the Church not the
individual• Gifts and talents are different things, a talented
piano player is not a worship leader. Talents are what a person can do themselves, a gift is what God can do in and through one of his children
• However a gift often requires work on the part of the person - Noah’s preservation was a gift from God but he had to build the ark himself!
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Abuse of a Gift - will result in the loss of the Gift.
• The parable of the talents shows that God will take a gift back.
• Abuse of a gift can also affect others, for example, the gift of speaking in tongues when not used in love will sound like a resounding gong or clanging symbol - 1 Cor 13:1. This will drive people away and also prevent others from using their gifts in love.
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Some people never accept or ask for gifts because of self-doubt
• Satan is the great deceiver, if at all possible he will make you doubt that God has gifts for you
• He may already seed the doubt years before you even realize that there may be a gift
• Example, a teacher may have told you that you are not good at a subject, so you avoid any ministry related to subject.
• However this is FALSE, gifts are what God does through you not what you do on your own.
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God is the God of 2nd Chances
• If we repent from not using/accepting or misusing a gift that God may have taken away then God will forgive us and the gift may be given/returned.
• However this must be repentance and not self-pity
• We must not use God forgiveness as a license to misuse gifts.
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Earnestly Desire The Greater Gifts - 1 Cor 12:31
• If you want real joy, ask God want he wants to see in your life and then ask Him for it
• Seek the gift through which you can best meet the needs of others - 1 Cor 12:13-31
• Seek the gift through which you can best manifest God’s love - 1 Cor 13
• Seek the gift through which you can best edify (build-up) the body of Christ - 1 Cor 14
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Summary - God is in Control
• Departures from the Church means opportunities for others (inside and outside the Church) to arrive
• God has an abundance of gifts which operate through his children for the benefit of the Church
• Gifts lost through misuse/nonuse can return• Earnestly seek the best gifts!