Reflection Paper. Before I Took This Class, I Felt That

Consider how the call to be a Christian lead to a transformed life and informs your perception of the other two callings (vocational and immediate).

Each person’s gift or gifts are very unique. They are never equal or the same, but some are similar, and yet not the same. 1st Corinthians 12:4-6 “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit, and there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord, and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all”.

I must find my calling if I am to truly live my life to the fullest and to live out God’s plan for my life. God is the only one who can help me find my purpose. He has had a plan for my life long before I was even born and that God has a purpose for me that no one else could fulfill. “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future, Jeremiah 29:11” (NIV). This means that no matter what I do as long as I am in accordance with God’s will, everything will turn out for the best in the end. God has promised to give me hope and a future and to bless my life. “For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do, Ephesians 2:10” (NIV). With this knowledge I know that God has created me exactly the way I should be and that he has given me talents and skills enough to do all he asks of me to do.

God has blessed each of us with our own set of gifts. These gifts, ultimately for his glory, exist to help us help others in some fashion. In week two of this course, an assignment to assess and discuss our own gifts was completed. In order to fulfill the assignment an assessment was completed. According to the assessment, my gifts are craftsmanship, exhortation, helps, encouragement, giving, and wisdom. Each gifts holds a purpose and connects to other similar gifts.

Spiritual Gifts, talents, and skills: Christ gave you a spiritual gift so you could be more effective in ministry, as you and the body of Christ uses their spiritual gifts, He can minister to the universe through

Now imagine the world without Christians: Seventh Day Adventist to be exact. I chose a faith based institution for spiritual training, Sabbath keeping, and having the tools that will prepare me to offer different services and deploy me out in the world while building God’s kingdom. While attending Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas. It was training ground, a family based atmosphere filled with love and a little heaven on earth. Knowing how imperative this in a dark, hungry and thirsty planet. I made it my duty to attain all the spiritual training needed to be a light to those dying souls. And I believe at a faith based intuition I will receive the spiritual training needed where I will be able to build a Christian character, develop an inner transformation that will help ignite changes in

God has a unique purpose for each and every one of us. Sometimes life gets so busy that we forget what our purpose is in life, but God has a way of guiding

C. Peter Wagner (2012) defines a spiritual gift as attribute given to each member of the body of Christ, according to God’s grace to be used for the church. Every believer possesses unique God given spiritual gifts. These gifts are given to us to further His kingdom and to bring Him glory. The Biblical reference to Spiritual gifts are found in four passages: Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:8-10; 28-30, Peter 4:9-11, and Ephesians 4:11. They are Leadership, Administration, Knowledge, Teaching, Exhortation, Faith, Wisdom, Prophecy, Discernment, Shepherding, Evangelism, Faith, Serving, Pastoring, Apostleship, Hospitality, Mercy, and Interpretation of Tongues. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:28, ESV).

Walking into class for the first time, I did not know what to expect. I grew up going to church every Sunday and going to Sunday School after the church service, it was a Christian household. I know the stories, the important Bible versus and the songs. I would say that I know my faith, my faith was something that I knew and I wouldn 't question it. It was something I was confident with since its something I have known since birth. In this class we question faith, we question everything, even Jesus. I am learning that questions are the best way someone can learn. While reading Night, The Plague and The Gospel of Mark, I got to explore the meaning of the word God.

Great to here that you have been impacted tremendously by this course. I believe that one of the greatest accomplishments of a Christian is to understand and learn how to make right choices in life. Such as, choosing to be obedient to the word of God, choosing that which is not passing, and choosing that which is for eternity can take time to learn. Why? It is so important, for the reason that one’s choices will determine the quality of life, circumstances, successes, victories, accomplishments, purposes, achievements, prosperity, triumph, tranquility, etc. On the other hand, not to choice wisely can bring failure, lack of success, nonfulfillment, dereliction, collapse, suffering, pain, lostness, aguish, spiritual bankruptcy, etc. Just as your

I believe that Spiritual Gifts are the talents that God grants to each of His

Throughout my entire life, I always strived to do what God has planned for me, even if it means still searching for what I have to do in the following years. I feel my entire life and experiences that accompanied it along the way have guided me towards the direction I am headed towards to serve God to the best of my abilities. The analysis of these experiences has given me the insight into what I can exactly take away from these experiences and what God calls me to do to serve the world and others resulting from this process of introspection. I have learned through myself, that God is extremely active in everything I am involved in. He made me strong enough to endure the experiences I needed to get to my current point in life. I recognize God's sacrifice for us to

Our purpose in life is to serve God. Jesus gave us the Great Commission at the end of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Matthew 28: 16-20 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?

The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.