Summary: God equips His Church with gifts, as He has promised, and you are His gift to your church and community. He has done this for 2,000 years and still does it today, and today is your day; You are the next man/woman up.

Ephesians 4:11–16 (NKJV) 11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

The Resurrection Changes Everything - Come and See!

Summary: Have you ever stopped to consider how much grace you've actually received? Not in abstract theological terms, but in concrete, life-changing reality? The answer to that question might surprise you—because the measure of grace given to us is directly tied to the measure of Christ's gift. And when we look at the cross, when we examine the Gospel promises scattered throughout Scripture, we discover something astonishing: His grace is immeasurable, unsearchable, and continually flowing into our lives at this very moment.