SPIRITUAL GIFTS FINDER
Spiritual Gifts Finder
Discover how God has uniquely gifted you to serve
Our Hope For You
Today at Spiritual Gifts Finder, our hope is that you take a step towards understanding how your uniquely designed personality, coupled with the spiritual gifts God has given you, help reveal a fulfilling path to your destiny. Proverbs 25:2 says it is God's privilege to conceal things and our privilege to discover them. Together, let's discover all that God has planned for our generation and make a positive difference for the Kingdom.
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
Ephesians 2:10 (NASB)
The Goal of This Class:
- To discover how my spiritual gifts help to reveal my God-given purpose.
- To discover the amazing potential of my life.
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to the Father."
John 14:12 (NASB)
Discover Your Personality
Elements that help to develop your personality:
- A. Personal history
- B. Temperament
- C. Relationships
- D. Life experiences
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV 1984)
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts
"Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant."
1 Corinthians 12:1
Spiritual Gifts Are Not:
- Natural Aptitudes, Strengths or Abilities - We all have natural abilities that we've learned from those around us regardless of Christian faith. Many times our natural abilities and strengths are redeemed by the Lord to become spiritual gifts.
- Character Traits - We are all called to have character and our gifts should produce the nature of Jesus Christ in each person. A person should not say he has the "gift of peace" when we are all encouraged to develop that characteristic. Spiritual gifts offer opportunities for us to exemplify Christ.
- Titles or Positions - Spiritual gifts often lead to titles or positions but a person may have the gift without the role or the role without the gift. Regardless we should serve whenever we are given the opportunity. Working in the area of your gifting allows you to "be" the person that God has called you to be rather than just "doing" good things.
- Self-Promoting - Spiritual gifts are endowments given by God to His people for accomplishing His purpose on the earth. Spiritual gifts are given for the glory of God.
"Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit...try to excel in those that build up the church."
1 Corinthians 14:1, 12
How Do I Receive Spiritual Gifts:
- Accept Jesus Christ as Lord of your life.
- Acquire faith and truth in the area of spiritual gifts.
- Apply yourself to learning about spiritual gifts.
- Ask for the Lord to give you spiritual gifts.
"Then Jesus said to the centurion, 'Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.' And his servant was healed at that moment."
Matthew 8:13
The Next Steps
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith."
Hebrews 12:1-2
- Examine your feelings.
- A. Your gift may tie in directly with your temperament and personality. The same God who gives spiritual gifts also made up our total being.
- B. Know your potential strengths and weaknesses.
- Explore the opportunities.
- A. Look for needs.
- B. Based upon your gifting find out where you can be useful.
- C. Do it.
- Study and grow in your gifts.
- A. Study the Bible.
- B. Research other material on spiritual gifts.
- C. Get to know people who are using their spiritual gift.
- D. Share openly with others the gifts that you have, think you have, or would like to have.
- Evaluate your results.
- A. Your spiritual gift should work.
- B. Gifted people get results. If you have the gift of healing, sick people will get well.
- Depend on feedback from the Church family.
- A. If you think you have a spiritual gift and you try to exercise it, but no one else in your church thinks you have it, you probably do not.
- B. It needs to be confirmed. Feelings are important, but they are far from infallible.
- C. When members of the Body confirm one another's gifts, more can be accomplished because everyone begins to see where they fit and how their gifts work together.
- Join an OC Group or join a team.
- A. Join the Dream Team.
- B. Start an OC Group.
- Begin the process today.
- A. Attend Dream Team 401.
- B. Get connected with the leaders of the teams you want to get involved in.
Spiritual Gifts Survey
Directions: This is not a test, so there are no wrong answers. The Spiritual Gifts Survey consists of 80 statements. Some items reflect concrete actions; other items are descriptive traits; and still others are statements of belief.
- Select the one response you feel best characterizes yourself and place that number in the blank provided.
- Do not spend too much time on any one item. Usually your immediate response is best.
- Please give an answer for each item. Do not skip any items.
- Do NOT ask others how they are answering or how they think you should answer.
- Work at your own pace.
Questions 1-10 of 80
Your Results
Your Top 5 Spiritual Gifts
All 16 Spiritual Gifts
Scoring Details
Your Top 5 Spiritual Gifts
Passion Assessment
Narrow your passions by asking yourself these questions: