Your Gifts, My Gifts.

God has given every believer gifts, and none of us has them all. Some gifts come easily to you that do not come easily to others, and the reverse is also true. The beauty of the church is that Christ joins all of those different gifts together into one body for his glory.

One of the ways God has wired me is to enjoy creating things on a computer: websites, graphics, and videos tend to come naturally. Because of that, I gladly offer my help—free of charge—to anyone who is seeking to start or strengthen a Christ-centered website or online ministry. If that would serve you, please visit creatingforchrist.com and let me know how I can come alongside you.

Scripture reminds us that our variety is not a weakness but a design feature of the body of Christ:

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor… that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
(1 Corinthians 12:12–27, ESV)

May God help us resist the temptation to envy one another’s gifts or to downplay our own. Instead, let each of us steward what the Lord has entrusted to us, so that the whole body might be built up in love.