What Do I Do Best?
I just completed reading Bruce L. Bugbee’s book What You Do Best in the Body of Christ : Discover Your Spiritual Gifts, Personal Style, and God-Given Passion, and hope to teach some of the material from it in our next adult class starting in July. The book talks about how we’ve each been uniquely created to function in a way that completes the larger picture of what the church is supposed to look like.
The author encourages readers to imagine what a church would look like if it was taught be people God supernaturally gifted to teach, lead by people God gifted to be leaders, comforted by people God gifted with mercy, and reaching out to the world through people God gifted to share His message authentically and effectively. In other words, if the church actually lived up to its hype, who could resist that kind of love, that kind of mercy, that kind of larger purpose?
I want to be a part of a church that lives up to its hype; a church that actually models the love, compassion, mercy, and grace it so often preaches; a church that accepts people like Jesus accepts them. I think I’ve found a church that is on that track, but I think we can still do better… Hopefully this new series will spur us further toward living out the model Jesus gave us.
