Here's Dr. Michael Yousuff, introducing today's leading the way.

Listen, we can have the best organized church.

We can have the best administered church.

But if the spirit of God is not guiding each member to use his or her gift, we are nothing

but mechanical robots.

Think back to your last birthday, or maybe even Christmas.

You probably received a really thoughtful gift from someone who's special in your life, right?

But what if instead of opening that gift and thanking them and using it, you just put it to the side.

You didn't open it. Can you imagine?

The gift giver probably would have their feelings hurt, right? Thank you. Thank you for joining

International Bible Teacher Dr. Michael Yousef for leading the way, because today he's talking

about spiritual gifts. God calls Christians to open them and use them and enjoy them,

but many Christians just ignore spiritual gifts, just set them aside. Here now is Dr. Michael

Youssef to continue his challenging practical series called I Belong. Let's listen together to leading the way. Some of you may have seen

this commercial on television and is run by one of the mainland denominations. And it is

designed, the commercial is designed to invite to all people of all kinds to come to their churches. So far so good, church must always

be welcoming of everybody. But then the commercial concludes by saying something to the

effect that God is diversity and diversity is God. What is this all about?

I mean, what is happening here?

For the past 20 years or so, there has been a phenomenon that is sweeping through the

older denominations in America, namely that the gospel of diversity of belief.

Now you must understand now, I'm not saying diversity of people,

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