4 December 2011
1. Gifts
a. Story: My family we don’t buy everyone gifts, but we draw names. We got my older sister and her husband on my side, and My wife’s older brother and his wife on My wife’s side. The hardest though are getting gifts for dads, who can buy whatever they want anyway. Obviously we want to get a great gift, and so I was thinking about what makes a great gift:
b. What is the best (or one of the best) present(s) you have ever received?
i. Why was that the best gift?
ii. Board: Gift / Reason
1. Valuable to Receiver - Is something the Receiver needs
2. Given for free / Is not selfish
3. Valuable to Giver - Requires sacrifice
2. Gifts of the Holy Ghost
a. Recap what you have learned about Paul in 30 seconds?
b. Paul travelled around did some pretty amazing things, how did he accomplish so much?
c. 1 Cor 12:1,7-10
i. 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant
ii. 7 But the manifestation of the aSpirit is given to every man to profit withal.
iii. 8 For to one is agiven by the bSpirit the cword of dwisdom; to another the word of eknowledge by the same Spirit;
iv. 9 To another afaith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of bhealing by the same Spirit;
v. 10 To another the working of amiracles; to another bprophecy; to another cdiscerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of dtongues:
d. Which of these Gifts Paul had?
i. Acts 3:1–8
1. (Peter and John heal a man who is lame). The gift of healing.
ii. Acts 14:8–10
1. (Paul heals a crippled man). The gift of healing.