Through the gospel Christ is calling all of us to yield our talents to his service. He needs godly parents and grandparents devoted to teaching their children God’s Word. He needs men and women to teach Bible classes in local churches. He needs men to serve as elders and deacons, and godly wives to hold up their hands. He needs men who will lead songs, lead prayers, and lead at the Lord’s table.

He needs people to scatter the precious seed of his kingdom in a thousand places as our lives come into contact with other people. He needs evangelists to preach among saints and sinners, in local churches and in faraway places. He needs saints to confront sin among his people, to lift up the weary and encourage the discouraged, and “to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction” (James 1:27). He needs young and old to shine as lights in a world of sin (Matt. 5:14-16).

We today face crucial decisions about the use of our talents: will we give them to God or waste them in selfish sinful conduct?

- Excerpt from an outline on the Faith of Abraham