“Teachers who teach, doctors who heal, auto mechanics who put complicated machinery back together, what if no one had any need of your special gifts whatsoever?
No, the loving God created us in a truly wonderful way. God has created us in such a way as to need each other’s gifts. We’re able to build bridges of love that reach out across barren loneliness because someone else really needs what we have to offer them. We’re interdependent.”
David Polk in The Gifts We Bring: Worship Resources for Stewardship and Mission, ed. by Kenneth Gordon Dean, Dana Morgan McBrien, Robert Andrew Reister, and Paula K. Ritchie (Church Finance Council: 1988) 23.