When was the last time you felt like you contributed something?
Maybe it was teaching a great lesson to a classroom.
Maybe it was cooking a great meal for your family.
Maybe it was finishing a project at work.
There is nothing like the feeling of being necessary. There is nothing like recognizing that you are a valuable part of your family, your office, your community, your church.
The fourth rhythm that we want you to see as a vital practice of following Jesus is the rhythm giving. Now in one of our previous rhythms we talked about sharing resources, but here we are talking about not just giving stuff, but giving ourselves. This rhythm understands that every member of the church has a vital gift to give. Paul used the image of the body to describe how each member plays an essential role. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in his classic work Life Together uses the image a chain and suggests that each member is an indispensible link. He states that a community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them… It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a definite task to perform for the community, that he may know in hours of doubt that he, too, is not useless and unusable.
Your church is as talented as you have the capacity to see. (Erwin McManus,Mosaic Church)
To follow Jesus requires that you know that you have something to give
and that you find ways to give it.
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4:16
The question is what do you have to give?
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