Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted December 28, 2016 Moderators Posted December 28, 2016 See: http://conversation.spectrummagazine.org/t/natural-talents-as-created-gifts/12634 The process of selecting pastors or appointing local church officers often seems mundane and prosaic. How does it help to talk about the capacities that enable people to fulfill the tasks associated with these positions as spiritual gifts? Are these gifts identical with our natural talents? Such questions are especially puzzling because of our increasing awareness of the role of interacting genetic, developmental, familial, and socio-cultural factors in shaping our abilities, and the evident absence from our experience of extraordinary, immediate divine acts that leave us gifted in ways we were not before. What is the difference between the spiritual gifts the Newer Testament and the Christian tradition maintain are conferred on Christians by God and the endowments received from our ancestors and our environment or developed by means of our own choices? And does the answer matter? Quote Gregory
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted December 28, 2016 Members Posted December 28, 2016 I found the use of the word, "she," to be annoyingly obvious in the article, which took away from what might have been an interesting take on the subject of spiritual gifts vs talents. Does everything, overtly and covertly, really need to be directed at women's ordination in the church? Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
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