Growth Group Homework – Spring 2016 – Week 2

Getting to Know You  

  1. What was the most fulfilling job or task you ever had?
  2. What has been the most rewarding job or task as a church member?
  3. What is one skill you possess that no one in the group would know about?
  4. In what way are you serving the church at this time?

 

Going Deeper

  1. List the spiritual gifts in I Corinthians 12.
  2. For what purpose are they given? (v. 7)
  3. Look at Romans 12 and Ephesians 4. What additional gifts are listed?  What gifts are listed in more than one gift? 
  4. Which of the gifts have you observed in our congregation? How have they been expressed?
  5. What are your observations of the more spectacular gifts: speaking in tongues, healing,  miracles?  Have you ever witnessed one of these gifts?  Have you ever known anyone who expressed these gifts outside the context of a church? 
  6. There are spiritual “gifts”—and there are spiritual “fruits.” See Galatians 5:22,23.  What is the difference?  The Holy Spirit is the Giver of spiritual gifts.  What is the shared knowledge in the group that describes or defines the Holy Spirit? 
  7. What would be the consequences of not living out your spiritual gift?
  8. What would you consider to be the primary gifts that are expressed in our church culture?

 

Take it home

  1. Take a spiritual gifts assessment. Go to umc.org/what-we-believe/spiritualgifts-assessment.
  2. Consider your spiritual gift(s). How could you “live out” this gift/these gifts within the ministry of the church, the body of Christ? 
  3. Another way to think about spiritual gifts: What is your passion for Christ and the church?  What burden do you carry for the church/the kingdom?
  4. How many hours per week/month would you want to serve if it was in an area of giftedness?
  5. We don’t always serve out of a gifted area—how else can God use you, based not on your gift, but the needs of the church, the body of Christ?