Exercise your Gifts

One of the challenges faced by any congregation is that of encouraging everybody to exercise their God given gifts. In an average congregation in Scotland, one third of the membership do the bulk of the work. This leaves two thirds of an average congregation under employed. We are keen to broaden the base of service as much as we possibly can, and to that end we have added an extra session on gifts for our new members. We had the first session on gifting last Sunday afternoon, and it was led by Richard Gibbons. The 90 minutes flew past, as the 12 present reflected, among other things, on the areas of life which gave them most fulfilment and the way that people who knew them well would describe them. One of the most striking aspects of the time together was the way that a whole variety of skills and interests emerged during the conversations which took place. Just by spending time together in fellowship and listening to one another, all sorts of possibilities emerge for encouraging the exercising of our gifts. The 90 minutes together proved to be very worthwhile and we will be running this session again after the summer.

DM