God chooses your gift.
Everybody gets one.
Your gift’s not for you. 
You are needed & you are needy. 
But - what’s your gift? 
This week, we’ll cover what Pastor Fike calls “The Clarity Gifts”. 
Maybe you’ll hear about how God manifests Himself through you!

God chooses your gift.
Everybody gets one.
Your gift's not for you.
Your'e Needed & You're Needy. So... what's your gift?
Maybe it's one of these 6 FUNCTIONAL GIFTS Pastor Fike covered in today's sermon...

You are GIFTED. 
Last week, we talked about WHO gifted you.
This week, we’ll find out WHY, as we work to answer the most existential question of all… “WHO AM I?” 
The answer might surprise you.

When you hear the phrase "You Are Gifted", the immediate instinct is to rush to the gift.
As we embark upon this new series, we're starting with the giver. 
1 Corinthians 12:1-7 tells us a lot about His character, nature and intentionality. 
Here's the secret, though: Your Gift Is Not For You... It's for the rest of us. 

Lean in, because... You Are Gifted!

What do most of the leaders in the New Testament have in common?
What do they have in common with us?
What does this universal commonality tell us about how God sees us?
What if what makes you unusual is a strength and not a weakness?

You can't separate the word "Evangelical" from the word "Christian".
Evangelical is simply who we are.
Culture has a distasteful view on that word - so how do we REVERSE IT?

Following Jesus means more than believing like Him—it means engaging people like He did. This morning we discovered that one of the most powerful ways to share the Gospel is by creating radical curiosity and inviting others to encounter God through the transformation they see in us. May our lives become the kind of evidence that makes people long to know Him.

The Great Commission is more Expectation than Invitation.
Here's a question worth pondering:
What happens when Christians STOP living up to Jesus' Expectation?
What happens when the Great Commission becomes The Great OMISSION?

What if we've been reading Matthew 28:16-20 all wrong?
What if we've been hearing it as an invitation, when it's really not?
Every relationship navigates a certain set of expectations...
What if "The Great Commission" is really Jesus' "Great Expectation"?

Maybe the most dangerous, audacious question we could ask in regards to prayer is this: "What can we expect to happen when we pray?" Another way to say this: "What is the PRODUCT of PRAYER?" Pastor Fike is going to walk us down the narrow road of a healthy prayer life, and point out the ditches along the way.