We live in a hyper-competitive world where celebrity and champions are singled out at the highest achievement of success. This means, of course, that 99% of the world's population are not successful and struggling to reach the top. Is this really the way life was meant to be, struggle all your life, accumulate all you can, and then leave it others when you die and are forgotten? Jesus paints a different sort of picture of the church. According to Garrison Keillor,  Lake Wobegon is where the "women are all strong, the men are all good looking and the children are all above average." His perspective of the community is shaped by his perspective of what people could be and perhaps should be. Jesus says that we are all gifted, not just a few and that our giftedness is for the good of the entire community. There are not just a few elevated to status and privilege, but we are interdependent on each other to share, receive and united. This is certainly counter to what we normally experience in our competitive world, but is the only place where peace and fellowship can be found. SERMON SLIDES  Many Gifts One Spirit 7.20.14 SERMON NOTES: Sermon Notes 07.20.14 Many Gifts One Spirit [notice]PODCAST            Many Parts One Spirit 7.20.14E             Many Parts One Spirit 7.20.14L[/notice]