See the Need; Meet the Need

From Sunday's sermon: finding your spiritual gift doesn't require filling out forms, taking surveys, making inventories. What it requires: look out, see the need, and move to meet that need.

Pastor Rick: We can get so introspective when trying to identify our spiritual gifts that we miss the opportunity to use our gift to serve. We can get so distracted by identifying our spiritual gift that it becomes more about establishing our own identity and more about self-fulfillment than it is about serving others. Let's not let that happen. See the need, move toward the need, and meet that need, and you will discover your spiritual gift.

I also liked this Edward Clowney quote: "Gifts are discovered in service. We might rightly ask about the gift we have received but we will not gain the answer by introspection. It is in humble service that we discover the gifts we have and the greater gifts that we may need."

Less thinking, more doing.