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Subject: [propertalk.topic] Sermon for Epiphany 5B<br>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">This Sunday’s sermon is entitled “Spiritual Gifts” and deals with the epistle (1</font><sup><font color="#000000">st</font></sup><font color="#000000"> Corinthians 9: 16-23).</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Here it is: </font></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">In the 1</font><sup><font color="#000000" size="3">st</font></sup><font color="#000000" size="3"> Corinthian lesson (9:16), did you hear St. Paul talking about preaching?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">He says, “I don't have any reason to brag about preaching the good news. </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Preaching is something God told me to do, and if I don't do it, I am doomed.”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">From his words, it’s very clear that Paul must have been a truly gifted preacher.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">From reading the Bible it looks like Paul preached whenever he could, wherever he could, and to whomever he could- Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, male or female, slave or free.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">If you sat still long enough, Paul would preach to you!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">He was so good, that he could adapt the presentation to the audience.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Paul’s use of speech was very much like Rev. Stanley Sims’ use of a keyboard.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Does anyone remember the Rev. Stanley Sims?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">He was our minister of music until he died on March 23, 2002.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">He was an amazing man!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">I took piano lessons from him- not to learn how to play, but to get the chance to listen to him share his ideas.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Rev. Stan could adapt what came out of that keyboard to speak to whoever was listening.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">He could play classical music, jazz, Gospel, spirituals, show tunes- whatever.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">That’s how Paul was with words- he could communicate Jesus’ message to anyone!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">What a great spiritual gift!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">That’s what I’d like us to look at this morning- spiritual gifts.</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">We’ve meditated on spiritual gifts before.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">We looked at what they are, who has them, and what makes a gift “spiritual.”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">As you recall, everyone is born with potential unique giftedness.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Parents, grandparents- don’t you hate it when the child you love brings home a report card that says “not working up to potential?”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Guess what, God hates that too- not just for our child, but for us.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">All that amazing giftedness has to be developed, trained.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">As talented as Rev. Stan was, he had to take lessons and practice, practice, practice before his potential giftedness stopped being “potential” and started being “actual gift.”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">What makes a gift spiritual?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Again from November 16 (last year) we recall- what makes a gift spiritual is not what it is, but how it’s used.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">A gift becomes a spiritual gift when it is used for God’s purposes.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Using Rev. Stan again, if he used his musical gift only for himself, it wouldn’t have been a spiritual gift.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">His use of his amazing musical gift to enrich people’s lives, worship, understanding- that’s what made it a spiritual gift.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Here’s another example: are you a cook?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">If you only cook for yourself or to make yourself look good, your cooking is a gift, but you are wasting it spiritually.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">When you begin to use your cooking to reach out to others- then it is a gift in God’s service and it is a spiritual gift.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Are you good with budgets, as is Mrs. Ellen Wiliams- our treasurer.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">If she only paid our bills, that would show her giftedness.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">But when she watches our money as if it’s her own and calls companies if they overcharge us, now that becomes a spiritual gift.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">So- a gift is something you’re good at; it becomes a spiritual gift if it helps any part of God’s creation.</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">God holds each one of us responsible for developing our gifts and then using them for him.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Remember in Jesus’ parable of the talents how angry the master got at the servant who buried his talents?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">How do you go about developing your spiritual gifts?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Well, first you need to find your areas of giftedness.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Here are some questions to ask yourself:</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">After you’ve identified your gifts, use them for the Lord and his church.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Are you a good cook?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Make a batch of cookies to cheer someone up or make some chili for our feeding ministry.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Are you good with kids?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Help out with our youth program or ask your neighborhood school if they could use someone to help a first grader learn to read.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Can you sing?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Don’t just walk around your house singing, join the choir.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Do you have a touch with flowers?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Help in our meditation garden.</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">Now, let’s say we really work at developing our gifts, and then let’s say that we use them for God.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">What dangers are there?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Dangers??!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Yes, dangers- and I can think of at least two.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">One danger is when we get really good at what we do, because it is so very tempting to forget who gave us the gift in the first place- God.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">We don’t give credit where credit is due.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Back in early 1976 before it was canonically acceptable for women to function as priests, Fr. Bill invited the Rev. Jeanette Picard to St. Paul’s as our guest celebrant and preacher.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">She was one of the first eleven women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church and was in her early eighties at the time.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">She was also an accomplished balloon pilot.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">I was truly blessed, because I had a chance to spend some time with this amazingly brilliant woman.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">She told me about the time she took her scientist-husband up in a balloon to the stratosphere to do experiments.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">When they returned, a newspaper reporter was waiting to interview her.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">“Mrs. Picard,” he said.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">“Wasn’t it simply wonderful that your husband allowed you to accompany him when he went up into the stratosphere?”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">“My dear,” she replied.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">“I didn’t accompany him!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">He accompanied me!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">I was the pilot!”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">We do to God what the reporter did to Rev. Picard- we don’t give credit where it’s due!</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Who should have gotten the credit for a safe, wonderful flight?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Of course- Jeanette Picard.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">And who should get the credit when we become really good at our spiritual gift?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Of course- God, because he gave it to us.</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: center 3.0in right 6.0in;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">The other danger is when we become so busy doing, doing, doing that we forget to start every day with God in prayer.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Did you notice in the Gospel that even Jesus took a break from his busy schedule of healing?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Look in Mark (1:35) where we are reminded that “Very early the next morning, Jesus got up and went to a place where he could be alone and pray.”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">If Jesus needed time with the Father before he started a long day, what makes us think that we don’t?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Shut off the TV or radio, read a bit of Bible, think about it, and pray.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Keep your “Forward Day by Day” next to the toilet- you’ll have a chance to read it there every day, no matter how busy you get.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">For prayer time when you’re really busy, use the bathroom or shower or your drive to work as a time with God.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="3">So, avoid the dangers, but develop and use your unique gifts for the Lord.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">In closing, I’m going to share the lyrics of a song used by Dr. Martin Luther King in his “Drum Major for Justice” sermon that really speaks to me about using our spiritual gifts.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">It goes:</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 0.5in; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; mso-add-space: auto;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">If I can do my duty as a Christian ought;</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">For anyone who is interested, this sermon and updated African-American wisdom statements are posted on our parish’s web site under “Sermons & Stuff”. The address is: </font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.stpaulsepisag.org/"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman"></font></u></a><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.stpaulsepisag.org" target="_blank">http://www.stpaulsepisag.org</a></font></u><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> .</font></span></div>
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