There are a lot of things that need done, kind of like how we have bodies that have all these parts that work together. Some people might be singing up front, some people might be singing with the kids, you put my piercing in with the choir, who might be passing out bullet Some people like to cook, they can make snacks or coffee for filler sick time. Some people are good at speaking, maybe they’ll become pastors or leaders. So some people are really great at taking out trash, we need trash take routers. God gives us and the awesome thing is that we can figure out how we can use those gifts to work together as the church. You have special talents too, maybe you’ve discovered what some of those are, maybe there are talents that you have yet to figure out and that’s that’s a special present that you’ll get to open. For instance, some people have wisdom or discernment, some people have knowledge are really smart, some people have amazing faith, some people might even be able to speak in different languages, maybe they’re great at music, maybe they’re good at teaching and we all have these different abilities, different things that God gives us that are special. The Bible tells us that each of us has special gifts that God gives us, special spiritual gifts. This is how God uses us and helps us work together as his body, the church. I think it’s good any time of day or quite frankly. Each one of them on their own is usable and special but together they’re even better and together they can make me a nice tasty snack or lunch or breakfast or whatever it is you want to have a PB J for. So I need all of these components to put my sandwich together. Gotta have the knife or else I’m going to be spreading it on with my finger and that’s just messy and not sanitary and really doesn’t even spread that well to begin with, let me tell you, I’ve tried it. So I need all of these items working together to make my sandwich, right? I couldn’t do it without one of these things. Could I make a sandwich If I Only Had bread? Only if you want to eat an air sandwich or an imaginary sandwich. Now could I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich If I Only Had strawberry jam? No, that would just be jam without sandwich and as great as Jam is, it’s definitely not the same. I can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Now what do you think I might be able to do if I used all of these things together? Absolutely correct, I could build a boat. Here we have a knife and here it’s a big bag for small item Julie.

I think I might see where this is going here. I mean I like peanut butter, you can always go for some of that. Now let’s open up our bags and see what’s inside, shall we? All right, let’s see here. This is, ignore the fact that that one has Christmas on it. So let me give you a bag and we can find out what your special gift is. Now there’s something in all of these and we’re going to use the items that are in the bags to do something together. So each of you gets to open a very special gift bag of your very own and you get to find out what’s inside it. As you can tell, I’ve got all sorts of presents and I am going to give each of you a gift.

I have something very special to share with you today.

Christmas gifts for bible study group