It feels like an arrogant thing to think to call yourself or even believe that you are God’s gift, but it’s a truth every member of God’s church is a gift to his church, every part of the body is there to serve the body. As Paul writes to the Corinthians he says in 1 Corinthians 12: “God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.” God chose to put you in the body and to put you in the role that he put you. You are God’s gift to your church, to play the role that he has put you in, he has gifted you uniquely and made you the person you are to play your role, to serve the church in the way that he has made you, to love them, to grow them, to love him and to show them the love that he has for them.

Supervision I believe is a gift to the church and it’s leader, as it helps the leader or church worker to consider themselves, to consider the gifts that they have, to consider the situation that God has placed them in, and think about how you can better use the unique person that God has made you to be, that you are today to love the body that you are a part of. Supervision is designed around you, around the situation you find yourself in, it is not a program that is set up to give you the information to help you to be someone else, or do something else, it is about you being the best you, you can be, in the situation that God has placed you.

As we head out of lockdown and back to meeting in a face to face manner, there will be a great push perhaps even from ourselves to return to the normality of 2019, where we were finishing off the work that was put in the years before to fulfill our 2020 vision (I think we probably had it wrong, although perhaps we were looking forward to a stronger online foot print).  I think one of the dangers in getting back to church is that we discount the impact the past two years has had on us as leaders and on our congregations, the basic reality is that we are not the church we were in February, 2020.  So it is worth investing some time in considering who are we now, what are our strengths, our desires, as leaders?  Before we even consider what is the community looking for from us? 

How will you do that?  How will you take the time to consider your strengths, not the needs, not the things that people want from you, but how has God gifted you, it is worth acknowledging that he has gifted you the congregation and community he has put you in.  However he has put you in the place you are, what are the natural strengths and weaknesses that he has given you, what are the things that he has made you to be drawn to? 

A supervisor could be helpful in acknowledging who you are, supervision is about you, about helping you to best serve the true and living God in the place he has put you, why not get in contact with Simon from MPSA, and consider meeting regularly with him so he can do what God has set him up to do to best do what God wants you to do.