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The Real Marriage Podcast

Caring for the Soul // The Spiritual Gift of Shepherding

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7919 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual Gifts Series: Shepherding Howdy folks! On this season of the Real Marriage Podcast, we want to help you find out what gifts you have and how you can use those to serve your spouse and minister to your family. Also along the way we will be sharing some stories of church leaders from the past with marriages that inspire us! Each week will be discussing a different spiritual gift to help you not only identify the gifts you have, but excel in them for the glory of God. In this episode we discuss the spiritual gift of shepherding. Links/Offers mentioned in this episode: Spiritual Gift Guide  Text 'GIFTS' to 31996 to get a free copy of our Spiritual Gifts guidebook American Underdog Movie https://americanunderdog.movie/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And we're not talking about everybody has to do full-time ministry, obviously.

0:04.0

When we say do ministry together as a family, we're talking about, you know, through your church, through, you know, community stuff.

0:10.7

It's serving together.

0:12.9

You may have a job that you do full-time outside of that.

0:15.7

And that's great.

0:16.5

We need everybody to serve and do ministry, whether it's vocational or not.

0:21.1

And what I would say, too, honey, is every Christian is in full-time ministry.

0:25.0

Yeah.

0:26.0

And whatever you're doing it, if you're doing it under the Lord, then it's, it is a ministry.

0:32.7

It is benefiting others, and it is representing God.

0:35.8

And so I've never really liked this clean, bright line

0:39.4

between, are you in ministry or not? It's like a business owner who's stewarding their resources,

0:44.6

managing their employees, they're pastoring. Their employees, they're using gift of evangelism

0:50.6

to lead them to Christ, gift of discipleship to help mature them, gift of administration,

0:55.3

to manage the resources. I mean, they're doing ministry. Now, it may be in the context of the

1:02.4

business, and it may not even be a Christian business, but it is a Christian person, so everything

1:07.0

they're doing is unto Christ. Hey, everyone, it's Mark and Grace Driscoll with the Exo Real Marriage podcast.

1:14.0

And we are going through the spiritual gifts series and just helping you determine

1:19.2

in your relationship what each other has so that you can encourage one another in those.

1:24.1

We've gone through several already.

1:26.1

And we are on the gift of shepherding and care.

1:31.4

And this is something that, I think we both have to a degree, but because a pastor shepherds as well,

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