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b'We\\u2019re on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been \\u201con air\\u201d for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we\\u2019re releasing a throwback episode that looks at the upcoming week\\u2019s lectionary.\\nStay connected with us on\\xa0Facebook,\\xa0Twitter,\\xa0Instagram,\\xa0YouTube, and inside of\\xa0Sanctuary Collective. We\\u2019ll see you with new episodes in September!\\nWhat have you been taught about the things you like to do? About the ways to stand up for justice? Have you been discouraged or feeling like you have to be someone you are not? Then this is the podcast for you. Brian and Fr. Shay talk about using your gifts and doing what you love.\\nRead the transcript (PDF)\\nEphesians 4:1-16\\nTherefore, as a prisoner for the Lord, I encourage you to live as people worthy of the call you received from God. Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love, and make an effort to preserve the unity of the Spirit with the peace that ties you together. You are one body and one spirit, just as God also called you in one hope. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, who is over all, through all, and in all.\\nGod has given his grace to each one of us measured out by the gift that is given by Christ. That\\u2019s why scripture says, When he climbed up to the heights, he captured prisoners, and he gave gifts to people.\\nWhat does the phrase \\u201che climbed up\\u201d mean if it doesn\\u2019t mean that he had first gone down into the lower regions, the earth? 10 The one who went down is the same one who climbed up above all the heavens so that he might fill everything.\\nHe gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. His purpose was to equip God\\u2019s people for the work of serving and building up the body of Christ until we all reach the unity of faith and knowledge of God\\u2019s Son. God\\u2019s goal is for us to become mature adults\\u2014to be fully grown, measured by the standard of the fullness of Christ. As a result, we aren\\u2019t supposed to be infants any longer who can be tossed and blown around by every wind that comes from teaching with deceitful scheming and the tricks people play to deliberately mislead others. Instead, by speaking the truth with love, let\\u2019s grow in every way into Christ, who is the head. The whole body grows from him, as it is joined and held together by all the supporting ligaments. The body makes itself grow in that it builds itself up with love as each one does its part.\\nThe post Use Your Gifts \\u2013 Ephesians 4:1-16 #throwback appeared first on Queer Theology.'