R.C. Sproul

I promised in our last session that I would continue a discussion on this business of fitting our own gifts and talents with the job descriptions that we have open to us in terms of our career path or our employment and so on.

And I said I'd speak very practically about that.

Now, to look at that,

What we're doing is trying to obey the revealed will of God where one of the precepts of God is that we make a sober analysis of our gifts and talents and not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought and to try to see the function we have in the economy of the kingdom of God.

Now, I'm going to use my blackboard here, and I know that most of you who are hearing my voice at this moment

can't see me, and so you're going to have to use a little bit of imagination, but this isn't rocket science.

This is pretty simple.

I'm going to draw on this blackboard two circles.

Now, you all know what a circle looks like, and I'm going to put one circle on the left-hand side of the board, and to the right of it,

I'm going to write a second circle that is completely apart from and distinct from the first circle.

The two do not touch.

They do not intermesh or intersect at any point.

They're completely different circles.

You understand that?

Now, the circle on the left, I'm going to label job description.

I work at a department store, and I'm responsible for the sale of certain garments or so.

And so my job description spells out what my role is, what my duties are, and what I'm expected to do in my performance on that thing.

On the other side, in the second circle, I am going to write three letters that are followed by periods because these are abbreviations.

M period, A period, P period.

If you take away the periods, you have the word map, which we'll use as an acrostic.