By David Bragg
Last summer the Associated Press reported on a very unusual baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees. What made this game so special was the participation of Jose Caballero. The Rays player seemed to have had a regular game through the sixth inning. It was during the seventh inning stretch that Caballero was traded … to the Yankees (AP, 7/31/2025).
If you think about it, how we grow as servants is so important because it is one of the major ways that we display to others which team WE ARE ON! Peter says that each of us have “received a gift” (1 Peter 4:10). He is not talking about a miraculous gift because of the examples he offers: to “minister” and being “good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” We are each set by God in the body “just as He pleased” (1 Corinthians 12:18). How am I using my God appointed gift?
Like Jose Caballero, each of us, as Christians, switched teams, as it were. We must be careful to avoiding switching back. It is up to us individually to decide what to do with the gifts that grow out of our maturing faith. Will we bury our gifts, or use them in service to others, and God?
- David Bragg is co-editor of BulletinGold. He may be contacted through his blog: http://davidbragg.blogspot.com/ If you are in the Greensboro, NC area, please join us for worship: https://nwchurchofchrist.com/about/
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