Discover and Serve pt 11 – Skills and talents 2
Having identified what skills and talents people have to offer how do we mobilise them? Ability It is helpful to have some grading about expertise, as illustrated here with 'Level of skill'. Not only does this give a feel of the experience and quality of work that someone can bring but it also identifies where there is an opportunity for further training. Often working together using your skills gives a wonderful opportunity for equipping someone else and for discipleship. A few years ago two of the wives of elders in our church regularly invited young single women to their homes to teach them about home-making and enjoy their friendship, a reminder of the teaching in Titus chapter 2 for older women to help younger women. I now see well-equipped married…