Serving others helps avoid pride

For this step “use your gifts,” based on Romans 12:4-8, in the lesson “Live in Worship”, Paul teaches proper motivation for using diverse spiritual gifts by way of analogy to a functioning body that has many parts. The nut of verse 3 is that we avoid pride by serving others. Verses 4-8 names representative gifts that we use in service to others. In Romans 1:11-12, Paul wanted to use his spiritual gifts to encourage the Christians in Rome.

After covering these verses, discuss with members how serving others using our God given gifts help us not to think more highly of ourselves. If every believer has a God given spiritual gift, why doesn’t every believer use his or her gift in service? Can a gift be exercised in a wrong way?


Look at this poster board made with hands and feet that are labeled with acts of service. Could you lead your class to make such a board?

Regarding the ‘body’, note that God did not create the body to be served, but to serve using its various members. By the way, what gifts did you get as Christmas presents?