THE GIFT OF HELPS

I Cor 12:28

Acts 20:35

Luke 10:40

DEFINED:  The spirit given ability to serve in a support role

to enable others in ministry to increase their effectiveness

CHARACTERISTICS:

• Desires to help others
• Usually very unselfish because they like to help
• Find great joy in freeing those in leadership to accomplish greater goals
• Do not require great amounts of recognition for their efforts

CAUTIONS:

• Beware of too much busyness
• Don’t use gift of helps as a means of avoiding

discovering and using other gifts

• Do not confuse gift of Helps with Gift of Mercy
• Learn to say “no” so you won’t burn out
• May become so much a “helper” that you forget how to receive

CURRENT EXAMPLES:  How your gift may be put to use. . .

• Copying/collating/filing
• Photography
• Computer input work
• Hand work
• Bookkeeping
• Bulk mailings
• Bulletin stuffing
• Phone work for any ministry in need