Stand Strong - in Service

Stand Strong - in Service
  • Dan Haakenson
  • Feb 21, 2010
  • Series: Stand Strong
Further Reflection, Discussion, and Application
  1. What gift cards do you love to receive / use? And which are you likely not to use and why? What is the correlation between our use (or non-use) of gift cards and our use (or non-use) of spiritual gifts in serving?
  2. Take a moment to review 1 Peter 4:10, 11 – how would you summarize or restate these verses in your own words?
  3. 1 Peter 4:10 says that “each one should use” the gift received – do you believe that each one has received a spiritual gift? You? Others around you?
  4. This passage doesn’t list many specific spiritual gifts (Rom 12, 1 Cor 12 and Eph 4 do more of that) but speaks broadly of ‘speaking’ and ‘serving’ gifts. Which do you tend to gravitate toward and why (speaking / up-front or serving / behind-the-scenes)?
  5. The emphasis of these verses is on serving – using what God has given you to “serve others”.  In what ways are you doing that? In what ways could you do that? If you are serving, what helps you to do that? If you are not serving, what holds you back from doing so?
  6. Part of the message suggested that serving helps us to grow as well.  What are your thoughts on that? How does that fit with 1 Peter 4:10, 11?  How does that fit with your own experience?
  7. Why, do you think, would God have His grace come through us (people)? What does it mean to be “faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms” and serving “with the strength that God provides”? Try to move from those ideas to specific / practical expressions of what that means or looks like – have you experienced this? Where and how could you have this more?
  8. This text ends on the note of God’s glory – why is He praised as we serve? Does that seem like a good thing or a bad thing to you? Why?
  9. Part of the application mentioned in the message was that to get started in serving we can:  pray for courage and clarity to serve; look at what needs touch our heart that we’d be motivated to meet / serve; try different areas of service (like experiment); and evaluate how that service is going. Which of those four things have you done? Which have you not done? Are you willing to do those?
  10. Where are you at in regards to serving – tired, scared, resistant, eager, etc. – and how does 1 Peter 4:10, 11 speak to you in that?
  11. What step will you take from this passage / message / questions – maybe in response to the areas to serve sheet?  In something else?

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