“There is one body and one Spirit – just as you were called to one hope when you were called – one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us, grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: ‘When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to humankind.”
One of our church objectives is to grow in spiritual maturity so that we become “a body of Christ-like people” – something for which we need the indwelling power and enabling of God’s Holy Spirit. It is something we cannot do on our own. Today, one of the ways we can grow spiritually is to recognise and use the gifts that God has given each of us in ministry to one another and to bring glory to Him. May God make us willing to acknowledge and accept His gifts with open hearts and minds and to actively seek out ways in which they can be used to bring blessing to others even given the abnormal constraints today on the ways in which we “do church”.