# Upon This Rock - 6-11-2023 Created On: 06-11-2023 11:33 am Type: #note/literature📖 Place: [[New Hope Community Church]] Speaker: [[Daniel Furnihough]] Topics: [[Spiritual gifts]], [[IntentionalityIntentionality]] --- ## Notes * Goal: understand and know our role in the church body and why that’s important * 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12 * Speaks to the idea of spiritual gifts - gifts given by the Holy Spirit to us as followers * Exclusionary note from Daniel: this are only found during acceptance/the born again experience * Question: are these not ordained during creation? * How do these differ from natural skills and abilities? * These are blessings from God, but they’re not the same as spiritual gifts * Daniel referred to these as inherited traits * Isn’t the idea of religion technically inherited though too? I.e, [[Collective unconscious]] * Certainly not from a hereditary perspective, but from a cognitive evolution perspective * Where is this “line” between then? Is it less about the input and more out the outcome and specifically whom that impacts? I.e, if it enables the church or the congregation, then it is a gift * Otherwise, gifts live inside and outside of the walls of the church, figuratively and literally * Example, music * You can be a talented musician, but not use it to enable God’s word and the congregation * So that makes it “not a gift”? I feel like this is a slippery/elusive line - the transformative line doesn’t seem compelling. * Otherwise, we all have gifts, but whether we choose to use them to glorify God reflects the true fulfillment of God’s gift in our life - **I like this a lot more** * Spiritual gifts are bestowed upon on us to **help each other** * “To build up and edify Christ” * This correlates to the conversation I had with [[Steve Konieczka]] on Friday: “My purpose in life is to use God’s gifts to me to best help others” * I should catalog these… People’s perceptions of “their purpose in life” * [[The purposes of life]] * This is also a dope book name * [[Book or story ideas]] * This is made or broken through the idea of trusting God… * To not be envious of others, but to trust what God has bestowed and equipped us with what we need * God has brought us together as a body of many parts (ourselves and our gifts) that ideally work in in harmony * This actually correlates well to my exploration with [[Lola]] on *James and the Giant Peach* in [[2023-06-10]] - that individual differences in group dynamics generates unique, compelling, and balanced success. That each person plays a role and their own unique ways and that generates a well-rounded team. That diversity in mind and body is the core of team success. #todo * God reveals this path, the path of our gift, to us over time, through our openness - for his glory * If you withhold *his gift*, you’re hurting the collective body and congregation. These gifts become meaningless * This feels like it comes back to [[Intentionality]] - [[What’s the why?]] * Example, Jason, the worship leader, wouldn’t be truly utilizing his musical gift of his intentions we’re not rooted in enabling the body, the church, and God **Related**: - [[Upon This Rock - 6-17-2023]] - [[Upon This Rock - 6-25-2023]]