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Seminar 8 - Serving

This document discusses serving others through spiritual gifts. It begins by establishing that every person, including youth, has been given special gifts by God's spirit. It then outlines objectives around developing appreciation for spiritual gifts in youth ministry, establishing a theological basis, and learning how to recognize, affirm, and utilize gifts. The document explores biblical examples of gifts, conducting a spiritual gifts inventory, and encouraging youth to identify and develop their gifts for ministry. It concludes by emphasizing that youth leaders should help youth engage their gifts through service.

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Seminar 8 - Serving

This document discusses serving others through spiritual gifts. It begins by establishing that every person, including youth, has been given special gifts by God's spirit. It then outlines objectives around developing appreciation for spiritual gifts in youth ministry, establishing a theological basis, and learning how to recognize, affirm, and utilize gifts. The document explores biblical examples of gifts, conducting a spiritual gifts inventory, and encouraging youth to identify and develop their gifts for ministry. It concludes by emphasizing that youth leaders should help youth engage their gifts through service.

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Seminar 8 – Serving

Spiritual Giftedness and Service


INTRODUCTION
The Lord has a special gift for every youth. How can these gifts be
expressed at the local church. What opportunities are available for
each gift? Who are the key people in the journey? What is the role of
the nuclear family and the church family? How can these gifts be
used to encourage maximum involvement of the youth? Why should
the gifts of the youth be recognized and embraced?
SEMINAR OBJECTIVES
• Develop an appreciation for Spiritual Gifts in Youth Ministry
• Establish a theological basis for Spiritual Gifts
• Demonstrate the relevance of identifying and utilizing Spiritual Gifts in
young adults and teens
• Understand how to conduct a Spiritual Gifts Inventory
• Learn how to recognize and affirm spiritual gifts and use them in building
up the church of God on earth.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN MINISTRY
• The Promise
Jesus made a promise to send the Comforter, whom He identified as the
Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit is functional and operational in the daily life of everyone.
• One role of the Holy Spirit is to give gifts to God’s children.
• All the gifts are given to build up God’s church and to equip each disciple
for service.
The Prophecy
• The prophet Joel foresaw an unprecedented manifestation of the Holy
Spirit in the last days. (Joel 2: 28, 29).
• Unprecedented talents, gifts, and abilities will be demonstrated in
those who are so gifted by God.
• Young people will have enhanced visions and revelations of God’s
purpose is for their lives.
• This will be affirmed and endorsed through the wisdom given to older
Christians in dreams.
The Fulfillment
• God never intends for all of the spiritual gifts to reside in any one
individual.
• All gifts, including the gifts of faith and grace, are given to humankind by
the Holy Spirit of God. It is our privilege to receive them and to use them
for the purposes God intended.
• As Christian disciples, all Adventist youth can be assured that this gift is as
readily available to them.
Explore
List five gifts that God’s spirit has given to the church
 
 

 
THE GIFTS DEMONSTRATED IN
BIBLE HISTORY
Can you identify the specific gift or talent in these bible characters?
• Samson
• Solomon
• Hosea
• Ruth
• Esther
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
• Faithful men and women in all ages have understood the benefits of living
by the Holy Spirit.
• One of the great advantages youth leaders have is to inspire and motivate
youth to develop their God-given gifts and talents.
• Youth leaders have a VIP advantage and can help to identify and
encourage these gifts.
• Many talents remain unused and dormant simply because they were
never identified or encouraged.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
• An insightful and observant youth leader will engage youth in the
development of these gifts.
• This must be a deliberate and intentional process. The following steps
are not linear; they are circular.
• Once you have gone through steps one through five, you are back at
one again to start over.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
Step One: Conduct a Spiritual Gifts Inventory
• You will find the link for the Adventist Youth Ministries Spiritual Gifts
Inventory at the end of this seminar
• It would be helpful to be familiar with the general categories of gifts as
given in the Bible.
• It should also be understood that the lists in Romans, 1 Corinthians,
and Ephesians are not exhaustive.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
Step Two: Identify the gifts and abilities of the youth
• You and your young people will enjoy the exploration and study of
spiritual gifts. An important thing you will see happening is them
encouraging and affirming each other. One will shyly think they don’t have
a gift, but the inventory shows they do. A friend, or several, chime in--”
Oh, yes, you do! Remember that time when you---?” Of course, you will
help them to understand that one of the important steps of discerning a
gift is that it is affirmed by others when it is exercised.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
Step Three: Encourage those gifts and talents
• No matter how much the youth encourage each other, it will be your task
as leader to be the head cheerleader.
• You don’t want to give the impression that the young person gets any
credit for whatever gift God has bestowed, as if they are somehow special
above the others and “deserve” this gift somehow. But you certainly do
want to affirm and encourage.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
Step Four: Engage or utilize these gifts and talents in ministry
• This is when you create the plans we have talked about at other points in
this seminar and mobilize your energetic young “army” for Jesus. Great
things will happen, and then you will come together, evaluate, take note of
changes you want to make next time, and yes, comfort each other for
mistakes made and encourage each other to try again, with your hands in
God’s.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS TODAY
Step Five: Affirm those gifts constantly
• As a youth leader, you know, yourself, how easy it is to get discouraged,
or simply drift away and forget your calling in the midst of life and its
stresses. For young people, this is even more true.
• Constant, mutual encouragement will go a long way toward helping all of
you move ahead on the journey God is leading you on, to become fully
committed disciples of Jesus.
Explore

List at least five (5) gifts or talents you have identified in the
youth in your local congregation?
 
CONCLUSION
• All Christians have full and complete access to the Holy Spirit at all
times and are beneficiaries of the gifts which He bestows.
• It is the privilege of every youth to be a recipient of one or more of
these gifts.
• Youth leaders have a unique privilege and opportunity to
encourage young people to identify and develop their spiritual
gifts.
ACTIVITIES

• List at least five (5) gifts or talents you have identified in the youth
in your local congregation

• Course leader will lead participants in completing the Spiritual


Gifts Inventory. This is a major portion of the evaluation process.
RESOURCES
http://youth.adventist.org/Resources/Spiritual-Gifts-Assessment/Spiritu
al-Gifts-Questionnaire

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