Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

Hey, welcome to the daily drive. You might be out for a walk, a jog, or a run, or you might be driving

to work or to school. You could be sitting on the back patio

or you might be waiting your turn at the dentist office. Sorry about that one. I just think it's

amazing that wherever we might be and whatever time of day it is through technology, we can all

tune in and connect with what God might want to say to us. So thanks for making the effort to

consistently do this. My name is Mike, by the way,

we've been talking this spring about how God uses different things to grow us up. And yesterday,

we started a discussion about how he longs to get us engaged in passionate ministry, to use the

gifts that he has given us to make a difference in our world. Gifts that not only serve other people, gifts that not only throw a floodlight on his goodness,

but also cause you and me to feel fully alive.

We left off yesterday, introduced a little acrostic of the word shape.

Now, I got this from Rick Warren decades ago,

and it's been a helpful way for me to explain how God pulls all this off. The S in the word shape stands for spiritual gift.

Now, without delving into the centuries of church history, somewhere along the line,

the church decided to hire a few, quote-unquote, professional Christians,

and then passively watch them carry out their pastoral duties.

Everybody else would sit on the sidelines, sit on their hands, sit on their gifts,

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