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Unique Gifts Make Winning Teams - Session 3 - I Am Gifted to Succeed with 5 Fold Counsel

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Key takeaways

Wellness and Self-Improvement

Key Wellness / Self-Care / Productivity Strategies Emphasized

  • Identify your “grace” (inner motivation)

    • Use your own emotional feedback (joy/cheerfulness) to recognize what you’re naturally driven to do.
    • Ask: “What makes me cheerful?”—that’s presented as a clue to the grace God placed in you.
    • Practice aligning your work and “play” with that inner drive.

  • Multiply your gifts (don’t ignore or shrink yours)

    • You’re encouraged to add one gift over time rather than staying with only one.
    • Treat gifts like a responsibility: using them faithfully should lead to multiplication (example: Jesus’ “talents” parable).
    • Reject the mindset of “that’s not my gift” as an excuse to stay limited.

  • Progress toward maturity by completing the full team ecosystem

    • A major productivity theme is surrounding yourself with a complementary 5-fold team (not people who all think like you).
    • The goal is “mature/finished/complete” outcomes:
      • For churches: unity and growth (not stagnation).
      • For businesses: maturity/success/profit.
    • Practical questions to ask yourself:
      • Who is the T-team around me (counsel from different heart motivations)?
      • Am I asking for input regularly?
      • Am I listening, honoring what they say, and embracing it?

  • Use five “heart motivations” to get better counsel

    • The talk maps five motivations to five roles and suggests you seek counsel from all of them:
      • Teacher: clarity of truth
      • Pastor: love/care and healing wounds
      • Evangelist: convincing/communicating good news for life change
      • Prophet: inspired creativity/innovation informed by what the marketplace needs
      • Apostle / CEO-type: unifying all parts into one functioning whole

  • Build unity to enable “blessing” and effectiveness

    • Maturity is repeatedly framed as unity in one accord, likened to believers dwelling together in Psalm 133.
    • Wellness-style operational guidance is indirect but present: avoid behaviors that disrupt unity and effectiveness:
      • Don’t gossip
      • Don’t be a busybody

  • Use counsel as a growth mechanism (feedback loop)

    • Growth is tied to regular input from people with different motivations.
    • Maturity is expected when counsel from complementary motivations is consistently received and applied.

  • Context: why these gift categories matter

    • The session claims the Ephesians 4:7–11 list (apostle/prophet/evangelist/pastor/teacher) is especially important because it’s the one with a stated promise at the end: until we all attain… mature/complete.
    • Other gift lists (Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12) are discussed as additional emphases, including:
      • acting according to the measure/level of faith
      • that the same Spirit/God operates through varied manifestations.

Core Framework / Methodology

  1. Step 1: Discover your grace

    • Identify what makes you joyful/cheerful.
    • Follow that motivation in work and play.

  2. Step 2: Multiply your gifts over time

    • Add gifts year-by-year (or deliberately over time).
    • Use them faithfully rather than hiding or minimizing them.

  3. Step 3: Form a complementary 5-fold counsel team

    • Add people with motivations different from yours:
      • teacher, pastor, evangelist, prophet, apostle/CEO-type
    • Ensure you’re not surrounded only by “teachers” if you need other inputs.

  4. Step 4: Engage the counsel loop

    • Ask for input regularly.
    • Listen, honor, and embrace counsel.
    • Apply it to advance toward maturity.

  5. Step 5: Maintain unity

    • Walk together in one accord.
    • Avoid gossip and disruptive busyness.

Presenters or Sources Mentioned

  • Mark Virkler (presenter)
  • Thayer’s Greek definition (for “grace”)

Bible Passages / Authors / References

  • Ephesians 4:7–11
  • Second Peter 1:2
  • Second Peter 3:18
  • Jesus’ parable of the talents (Matthew 25 referenced conceptually)
  • Isaiah 61:1–3
  • Luke 4:17–21 (referenced as “Luke 41 17-21” in subtitles; context matches Luke 4)
  • John 19:30 (“It is finished”)
  • Psalm 133:1–3 (unity/blessing imagery)
  • Book of Acts (upper room “one accord” / Holy Spirit falling referenced)
  • Romans 12:3–8
  • 1 Corinthians 12:2–11 (and related verses)
  • 1 Corinthians 12:7–11 (nine manifestations list referenced)
  • Jesus (referenced through teachings and parables)

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