It's better to Give than Receive // The Spiritual Gift of Giving
The Real Marriage Podcast
Mark Driscoll
4.7 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We like to give. We've always given. We find great joy in giving. And then we raised kids. |
| 0:07.1 | And we really wanted them to grow up in an environment of generosity where they're looking |
| 0:11.8 | for opportunities to give. Yeah, it's super important to do that because again, kids can feel |
| 0:18.2 | and knowing your kids' spiritual gifts, too, maybe your kids have that |
| 0:23.3 | gift as well. And so you're squelching that gift in them if you're keeping them from giving. |
| 0:28.6 | But it's really important to train because it is so attached to forgiveness. |
| 0:32.6 | If you think about a lot of arguments with little kids are because they're selfish. And one of the best ways to |
| 0:40.2 | train them not to be is to teach them how to the opposite, how to be a giver, how to be generous. |
| 0:46.3 | All right. Welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcast, Mark and... |
| 0:50.3 | Grace Driscoll. I wonder if they could tell our voices apart. It's probably really hard just listening on the audio. |
| 0:56.2 | Hey, and if you're listening to the Real Marriage Podcast, we are dealing with something called spiritual gifts. |
| 1:01.7 | These are talents, abilities, skills that God has given to you, your spouse, and if you have kids, they've got these as well. |
| 1:08.7 | And these are ways that you can serve one another. And the primary |
| 1:13.4 | section in the New Testament that talks about spiritual gifts is 1 Corinthians 12, 13, and 14, 12 and 14. |
| 1:19.9 | Those two chapters are about spiritual gifts. And then chapter 13 is about the fruit of the |
| 1:24.8 | spirit, which is love. And these are different ways in your marriage that you can |
| 1:28.6 | love each other. One author's talked about love languages. Spiritual gifts are love languages. Some people |
| 1:34.7 | love by serving. Some people love by giving. Some people love by encouraging. Some people love by |
| 1:40.6 | mercy and empathy. And these are different divine designs that God has given you to do |
| 1:46.5 | ministry to each other and for others together. And so today we're going to talk about, |
| 1:52.1 | I think a gift we both got. Yes. Last episode was administration. Which we both don't have. |
| 1:57.4 | Both don't have. And so if you're listening to that episode, you're like, they don't know what |
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