Session 9 · Guide and forms

Gift Passages

SESSION 9 · NAMED BY THE BODY

The Gift Passages

The Scripture behind the Eleven Words — read slowly, before you name and are named

Romans 12:4–8New International Version

4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

1 Peter 4:9–11New International Version

9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:7New International Version

7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

What I notice

A word that stops you, a gift you recognize in a brother, one you suspect in yourself.