To Live is Christ // Week 6: Discovering Your SHAPE // Pastor Blaine Keene

Each and every person who trusts in Jesus Christ as Lord is called to serve God's purposes. Discovering our unique SHAPE is essential to fulfilling our role in the body of Christ.   S.H.A.P.E. = Spiritual Gifts (and fivefold calling): What are your spiritual gifts and fivefold calling? How did you discover them? Heart (Passion): What are your greatest passions? Abilities: What are your abilities or skills? Personality: What is your unique personality/wiring? Experiences: What life experiences have shaped you significantly?   "But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it...So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work." -Ephesians 4:7, 11-16 NIV