{"id":46028,"date":"2022-10-01T02:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/on-using-our-god-given-talents-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:09:25","slug":"on-using-our-god-given-talents-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/on-using-our-god-given-talents-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"On Using Our God-Given Talents &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The neck muscles that are supposed to hold our head upright sometimes  become lazy, not doing their job. As a result, our shoulder muscles  have to take over the function of holding up our head, causing  unnaturally stiffened shoulder muscles.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there are exercises available that will build up our neck muscles (see video) to do what they were designed to do.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the above problem happens spiritually speaking in the  Lord&#8217;s church. God has given each member talents that are to be  exercised for the common good of the church (Matthew 25:14-30; Ephesians 4:15-16; Colossians 2:19).<\/p>\n<p>However, when some members don&#8217;t pull their weight, others far less  gifted in those areas must pitch in. Although the body of Christ  continues to function, it is not functioning at its optimum level. There  are some overworked Christians because of a lack of responsibility on  the part of some in the church to develop and use their God-given  talents.<\/p>\n<p>God wants us to use the talents He has provided us to benefit others  in the church. Whenever we work together as a unit, we keep His body  strong (1 Corinthians 16:13; Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 6:10-11;  Colossians 1:9-11; 2 Timothy 2:1-2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building Teamwork<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Every Joint Supplies&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>God&#8217;s Talent Search Criteria<\/li>\n<li>Have We Measured Ourselves Lately?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neck muscles that are supposed to hold our head upright sometimes become lazy, not doing their job. As a result, our shoulder muscles have to take over the function of holding up our head, causing unnaturally stiffened shoulder muscles. Thankfully, there are exercises available that will build up our neck muscles (see video) to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/on-using-our-god-given-talents-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Using Our God-Given Talents &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}