Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Spiritual Gifts coming soon

2B1 - Please take a moment to review this information and schedule as you can:

Class,

As you have probably heard "spiritual gifts" is coming to Custer Road this lenten season. But you are probably have questions. What is spiritual gifts? What does it mean? Why is the whole church doing this? What does it mean for me? Why is this different than talents? What next?

This study is designed to help you find your gifts given by God so you can find roles in the church and community that meet your gifts. Contrary to popular belief, these gifts often do not match your career or what you think you're good at. Just because you're an accountant, doesn't mean you're called to serve in the finance committee. We are doing this study out of a desire to glorify God and become closer to who He created us to be. It's not a recruiting campaign for volunteers, but will give people the opportunity to find ways to plug-in and help the church gain a more community feel through connecting via our gifts.

We are going to take a deeper look into this then we do with most of our studies. Both of us had interest in this subject and felt it might be more effective to teach it as a team for the entire study. By doing this we hope to have a deeper understanding to help guide discussion and discovery and to make the course more enriching and engaging.

Please reserve a spot on your calendars for the six Sunday's in lent (3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5). Each week will build on the previous so if you can attend the entire time it would be great. There will also be several opportunities to take the course during the week and in the evenings for those that miss a Sunday or have conflicts during lent. It is our goal to get 100-percent participation in this course. Rev. Leslie Herrscher will join us one of the weeks and we may have some other guests depending on how the course develops.

We can pretty much guarantee that if you participate in this you will emerge with a greater understanding of your gifts and how you can maximize those to God's glory and your own satisfaction. Please feel free to contact either one of us in advance if you have questions.

God Bless,

Jason Lincoln & Michael Wilkins

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