Created—Called—Set Apart--To Serve

God made you and gave you a unique combination of gifts and talents and personality and passion to fulfill a unique role in the universe.  He has a variety of places and purposes—custom-built for you.  To find those places of “fit” takes effort, exploration, discernment, and the help of others.

Understanding how you can contribute and what you have to offer needs to be rooted, first and foremost, in what God says about you.

Scripture says that you have been created uniquely and specially by God.  Look up the following verses:

●        Psalm 139:13-16;  Jeremiah 29:11.  

●        What do you learn from these passages about God?  

●        About how each person is uniquely created?  

●        What do you learn about purpose?

In addition to that unique design and call, you are called to follow Jesus and to serve Him with the whole of yourself.  Read  Romans 12:1-2; Colossians 3:23-24; John 12:26.  

●        What do these passages say about service?  

●        About sacrifice?  

●        About worship?  

●        About calling?

The sense of God calling you is that deep sense of being chosen by Him and of being set apart to His service.  See Jeremiah 1:4-5; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 1:1-2; Romans 1:7; Galatians 5:13;  Mark 3:12-14; 1 John 3:1; Romans 1:1; Ephesians 4:1.

●        What do these verses tell you about what we are called to?  

●        Set apart from?  

●        Why we are chosen?  

●        What is God’s role and what is your role?

And, now, you are part of the great “priesthood of all believers”—see 1 Peter 2:9.

●        How does this passage define you and your role to others in the Body of Christ?

Read 1 Corinthians 12:12, 18-19, 27; Ephesians 6:7-8; John 12:26.

●        Discuss the concept of the Body of Christ together.  

●        Discuss the concept of God’s call to serve.  

●        What does that mean for you, personally?

Pray for God’s wisdom and discernment along the journey:  James 1:5 says “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”

For more about God’s call and equipping, see the workbook God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design and the accompanying video teaching lessons.