Your abilities are given to you for the benefit of other people. The Bible says in first Peter 4:10, “Each of you, as a good manager, must use the gift that God has given you to serve others.”  

Nobody is good at everything. Nobody has every talent. There are no perfect people who can say to the world, “I don’t need anybody else.” We need each other. We were made to work in teams. That’s why we need a family and a church. We’re better together.

Here’s some advice: team up with people who are good at what you’re not good at. Team up with people who complement you. This applies to marriage, too. My wife Wendy, for example, complements my strengths and compensates for my weaknesses. For instance – maybe you can relate to this – sometimes in one-on-one situations, sharing the Gospel, I just find myself nervous and I fumble and I don’t know what to say.  Whereas Wendy always seems to know what to say, and how to ask the right questions.  And so we work together on that.  I love to stand in front of people and authoritatively share the Gospel and she doesn’t really love to do that as much.  So we’re good together.

In our marriages, in our church families, in our friend groups, we’re constantly making each other better by embracing our individual strengths and weaknesses.

This is Andrew Palau.