So yesterday I watched some of the youth from our church at Celebrate Life. Celebrate Life is a district event in which students come to use their talents for God. Events like these are often called talent competitions. I suppose in a sense they are competitions since there are awards that are given and those who advance and so on. For a while this really bothered me. I didn't think there was any place in the Church for competition, but as time has gone on my thinking on this issue has moderated dramatically.
I think some of what I've come to like about Celebrate Life is that all students receive positive feedback -- there is no such thing as "bad" at Celebrate Life. But even more than this, Celebrate Life teaches youth to use whatever gifts God has given them. Scripture teaches us that each one of us have gifts, "according to the grace given us." Not all of our gifts all the same, nor are our gifts given to the same degree, but whatever God has given to us is to be used for the glory of God.
It seems that as we get older we can become too concerned with comparing our gifts to those of others. In doing so we can forget that we have gifts, and we can fail to use those gifts for the glory and honor of God. Hopefully each of us can find our own way to Celebrate Life each day.
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