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Service & Spiritual Gifts in sermons

Service & Spiritual Gifts comes up in 5.9% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (9.3%), United Methodist (9.2%), United Church of Christ (9.2%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (7.5% of sermons, up from 5.0%).

5.9% of sermons2,897 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about serve, service to others, spiritual gifts, volunteer, use your gifts, the least of these, wash feet, servant heart. Part of Church & Mission. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.7%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%2.5%5%7.5%10%12.5%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 2.5%Progressive 2017: 5.6%Progressive 2018: 3.3%Progressive 2019: 4.0%Progressive 2020: 4.1%Progressive 2021: 3.9%Progressive 2022: 5.3%Progressive 2023: 8.5%Progressive 2024: 8.2%Progressive 2025: 8.5%Progressive 2026: 8.2%Mainline 2016: 10%Mainline 2018: 7.5%Mainline 2019: 7.5%Mainline 2020: 6.3%Mainline 2021: 1.9%Mainline 2022: 2.4%Mainline 2023: 11%Mainline 2024: 11%Mainline 2025: 9.0%Mainline 2026: 8.7%Black church 2022: 2.9%Black church 2023: 4.8%Black church 2024: 5.4%Black church 2025: 7.4%Black church 2026: 4.7%Evangelical 2016: 8.5%Evangelical 2017: 4.8%Evangelical 2018: 4.4%Evangelical 2019: 4.3%Evangelical 2020: 4.5%Evangelical 2021: 3.4%Evangelical 2022: 4.1%Evangelical 2023: 6.2%Evangelical 2024: 7.2%Evangelical 2025: 8.3%Evangelical 2026: 6.4%All churches 2016: 5.2%All churches 2017: 5.1%All churches 2018: 4.2%All churches 2019: 4.4%All churches 2020: 4.3%All churches 2021: 3.3%All churches 2022: 4.4%All churches 2023: 8.1%All churches 2024: 8.3%All churches 2025: 8.4%All churches 2026: 7.3%

By denomination

Mennonite: 9.3% of 227 sermonsMennonite9.3%United Methodist: 9.2% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist9.2%United Church of Christ: 9.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ9.2%Jewish: 6.6% of 242 sermonsJewish6.6%Christian / non-denominational: 6.1% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational6.1%Unitarian Universalist: 6.0% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist6.0%African Methodist Episcopal: 5.3% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal5.3%Baptist: 5.0% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist5.0%Unity: 3.2% of 844 sermonsUnity3.2%Lutheran: 2.8% of 639 sermonsLutheran2.8%Presbyterian: 2.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian2.0%Catholic: 1.5% of 334 sermonsCatholic1.5%Episcopal: 0.7% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.7%Orthodox: 0.7% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.7%

All churches: 5.9%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Service & Spiritual Gifts more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

Gifts of the Spirit & Prophecy ×3.7Disability & Belonging ×2.5Faith & Mental Health ×1.9Immigration & Refuge ×1.9Stewardship & Giving ×1.9Prison & Restorative Justice ×1.8Poverty & Compassion ×1.8Church Life & Membership ×1.7

Churches that preach it most

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Share of transcribed sermons on Divining with at least one chapter on a theme, from Divining’s topic segmenter; 2016 to Nov 2026. Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Site map · Divining: a deeper search for meaning · build_seo_pages v0.0.1