Spiritual Gifts Analysis

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Spiritual Gifts Strength
Evangelism 18
Prophecy 14
Teaching 15
Exhortation 16
Pastor/Shepherd 23
Showing Mercy 20
Serving 15
Giving 12
Administration 24
About Your Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual gifts are tools God gives Christians to do the work of the ministry -- to fulfill the
Great Commission to reach, baptize, and teach and to minister to one another. Every
Christian receives at least one gift at the moment of salvation. Spiritual gifts are not rewards,
are not natural talents, are not a place of service, are not an age-group ministry, and are not
a specialty ministry. They express themselves through various ministries which, in turn,
accomplish a variety of results. A spiritual gift is the primary channel by which the Holy Spirit
ministers through the believer. It is a supernatural capacity for service to God -- and He
gives you a supernatural desire to perform the duties of that gift. Spiritual gifts are tools for
building the church. They are a source of joy in your Christian life and influence your
motives. A spiritual gift is a divine calling with a divine responsibility, because what God has
gifted you to do, He has called you to do, and what He has called you to do, He has gifted
you to do.
Three categories of spiritual gifts exist. CATEGORY ONE: The Miraculous Gifts, generally
known today as Charismatic Gifts (apostles, tongues, interpretation of tongues, healing, and
miracles). CATEGORY TWO: The Enabling Gifts, which all Christians have the ability to
develop (faith, discernment, wisdom, and knowledge -- qualities possessed rather than
activities performed). Many scholars combine these gifts with others, based on the similarity
of these gift characteristics and the synonyms used by Paul to describe them in Scripture.
For example, some scholars combine Discernment with Prophecy, Knowledge with
Teaching, Wisdom with Exhortation, and Hospitality with Serving. CATEGORY THREE: the
Team Gifts, which are service-, ministry-, task-oriented or are activities performed such as
teaching. The Team Gifts are functional and involve speaking or ministering. Chances are,
you have several of these gifts that vary in degrees and intensity. In many cases, spiritual
gifts may complement your secular employment. The Spiritual Gifts Analysis you took
identified your dominant TEAM GIFTS, which will help find your place on Gods team in
your church. Prayer and serving God will also help you see where God wants you to serve in
ministry in your church and daily life. This profile gives you a simple bar graph showing your
strengths (higher scores, longer bars) and weaknesses (lower scores, shorter bars) as
related to spiritual gifts, and analyzes in-depth your dominant and secondary team gifts
which are the ones that will have greater influence in your life. These are the areas where
you are gifted to be most effective and efficient and in which you will find it easiest to excel.
Your dominant gifts are Administration, Pastor/Shepherd
The results of your Spiritual Gifts Inventory indicate that
your number one dominant gift is ADMINISTRATION!
The Greek word "kubernesis" means one who steers a
ship. This expert had the responsibility to bring a ship
into the harbor through the rocks and shoals, under all
types of pressures. As an administrator you have the
Spirit-given capacity and desire to serve God by
organizing, administering, promoting, and leading the
various affairs of the church. The administrator is not a
glorified file clerk.
As an administrator you are a take-charge person who
jumps in and starts giving orders when no one is in
charge. You will put a plan on paper and start delegating
responsibility. You may lean toward organizing things,
events or programs, OR toward organizing people,
emphasizing personal relationships and leadership
responsibilities. In the first case, you usually organize
details and have people carry them out. In the second
case, you tend to organize people and rely on others to
take care of the little things.
You don't often admit to mistakes and do not like to take
time to explain why you are doing things; you just expect the job to get done. If things in the
church, office, club, etc. become fragmented, you can harmonize the whole program if given
a chance. You are a person with a dream and are not afraid to attempt the impossible. You
are goal-oriented, well-disciplined, and work best under heavy pressure. You are often a
good motivator and not a procrastinator. You are serious minded, highly motivated, intense,
and have an accurate self-image. You tend to be more interested in the welfare of the group
than your own desire. You are probably a perfectionist and want things done your way now.
Although to others you appear to be organized, you usually aren't. Be careful that you do not
make decisions just based on logic rather than Scripture. Work on your willingness to admit
to making a mistake and on being more sensitive to "little" people. Try to be a little more
tolerant of other people's mistakes.
Beware of Satan's attack on your gift. He can cause pride because of your leadership role,
selfishness because of success (not sharing glory with those under you), blame-shifting
when things go wrong, discouragement and frustration when goals are not met, anger and
mistreatment of those who disagree with your plans, lack of concern for people, lack of
spiritual growth, and wrong motives.
HOW CAN YOU USE YOUR DOMINANT GIFT? You may work well as the leader of a
project, ministry, or program; chairman of a committee or board; a church planner; or
chairman of building or fund-raising projects. Other positions where you may serve well
include pastor, assistant pastor, business manager, office manager or department head for
large staff, Sunday school superintendent, fellowship group or missionary circle leader,
library manager, camp director, church moderator, bus ministry director, nursery coordinator
or Vacation Bible School director.
The results of your Spiritual Gifts Inventory indicate that
your second dominant gift is
PASTORING/SHEPHERDING! The Greek word
"poimen" means pastor. In Paul's spiritual gifts listing in
Ephesians 4:11, this term is translated "pastor." Although
the word "poimen" is translated pastor only one time in
Scripture it is used sixteen additional times. The
remaining sixteen are all translated "shepherd."
Therefore, we are actually discussing the GIFT of
shepherding, not the POSITION of pastor. Though a
good pastor must have the gift of shepherding, everyone
who has the gift of shepherding is not called to be pastor.
The gift can be used in many positions in a church.
As a gifted shepherd, you have the Spirit-given capacity
and desire to serve God by overseeing, training, and
caring for the needs of a group of Christians. You are
usually very patient, people-centered, and willing to
spend time in prayer for others. You tend to be a "Jack of
All and Master of ONE," meaning you are usually
dominant in one of the speaking gifts (evangelist,
prophet, teacher, exhorter) as well. You are often
authoritative, more a leader than a follower, and
expressive, composed, and sensitive. Your pleasing personality draws people to you.
You have a burden to see others learn and grow and are protective of those under your
care. You want to present the whole Word of God and do not like to present the same
materials more than once. You are willing to study what is necessary to feed your group and
are more relationship oriented than task oriented. You are a peace-maker and diplomat -
very tolerant of people's weaknesses. You tend to remember people's names and faces.
You are more concerned with doing for others than others doing for you. You are faithful and
devoted and may become a workaholic. You can become an all-purpose person in order to
meet needs.
People with the gift of shepherding make the best Sunday school teachers and group
leaders because their desire is to go beyond just teaching or leading, to shepherd and
minister to the daily needs of their students. The position of Sunday school teacher or group
leader is an extension of the pastoral ministry in the church. These groups should be
shepherded on a small scale the same as the pastor shepherds the whole congregation on a
large scale.
Be careful to involve other people; don't try to do it all yourself. Work on making people
accountable. Do not be overly protective of your "flock." Because of these potentially weak
areas, other people may think it is your job to do all the work; they rely too heavily on you.
You may be expected to be available at all times, know all the answers, and be at every
function. Learn when to say no.
Beware of Satan's attack on your gift. He will cause discouragement when the load gets
heavy, and pride because your "sheep" look up to you. You may develop family problems
because of too little time and attention. You may become selfish when "sheep" feed in other
pastures.
HOW CAN YOU USE YOUR GIFT? This gift is a great help in many areas. You may serve
as a Sunday school teacher, small group leader, pastor or assistant pastor, bus captain,
special ministry leader (such as youth, children, men, etc.), nursery worker or as a half-way
house or other type shelter volunteer. You may consider serving as a dormitory leader in a
college, orphanage, children's home, etc. Scout troops would appreciate your assistance as
a den leader.
Building an effective team in your church depends on putting the right people in the right
places. The best way to determine what place each person belongs in is by determine
everyone's spiritual gifts. But, just discovering your spiritual gift is not enough.
Here's the real challenge. Many Christians are asking the question, "What is my spiritual
gift?" When in reality they need to be asking, "What is a spiritual gift?" They do not
understand the relationships of spiritual gifts. That is, they don't understand how a spiritual
gift relates to their life, how it relates to the will of God for their life, how it relates to the lives
of those around them, how it relates the local church, or how it relates to the body of Christ
as a whole. To give John J. Christian an additional name and make him John J. Exhorter
Christian is only doing him an injustice. Having a new name or title does not make you a
more effective, more fulfilled, or a better Christian, nor does it give you any more
understanding of yourself or those around you. Most contemporary material written on
spiritual gifts does an adequate job in helping you recognize, discover, and define what your
spiritual gifts are. Also, many do a fine job of teaching on the individual parts of the body, but
few complete their teaching by assembling the body, thus showing how church members
can work as complementing, effective, and efficient team. Thus, teaching a person only what
their spiritual gift is without teaching them what a spiritual gift is, is like giving someone a
new tool without giving them the operator's manual. They will never understand it fully nor
will they be able to use it to its maximum potential. The same is true with your spiritual gifts.
Now that you have taken this inventory and know what your spiritual gifts are, we encourage
you to study the principles that revolve around and relate to spiritual gifts. These principles
combined with recognizing your gifts have been proven to dramatically change lives AND
build churches. We have many resources available to help you better understand your gifts
and how they relate to all areas of your life. Plus, we have resources to equip and assist you
in teaching spiritual gifts and biblical team building to others. Furthermore, we have teachers
who can come to your church and teach private seminars for you group. For additional
information on resources or seminars just click on the appropriate button below.
How do you compare with the rest of the Body of Christ?
Laity
Most dominant gifts of 1159,801 people surveyed
Evangelism 3.37%
Prophecy 1.29%
Teaching 7.62%
Exhortation 9.12%
Pastor/Shepherd 19.77%
Showing Mercy 33.51%
Serving 5.60%
Giving 2.31%
Administration 17.40%
Pastors
Most dominant gifts of 163,723 people surveyed
Evangelism 5.36%
Prophecy 1.58%
Teaching 8.19%
Exhortation 6.27%
Pastor/Shepherd 34.03%
Showing Mercy 17.41%
Serving 3.18%
Giving 1.09%
Administration 22.88%
Analysis of Comparison Charts
Could the results from these comparison charts be skewed?
Probably to some degree. Two factors to consider are 1) Results
are not compiled from the Christian public at large but only those
who are Internet users. 2) On the laity side, a much larger
percentage of those taking the spiritual gifts inventory on-line are
women (63.7%). Women tend to score high in the Gift of
Shepherding because the characteristics of the gift of
shepherding are very similar to the God-given instincts of
mothering which comes natural to most women. Although many
women have the gift of shepherding and it manifests itself in
many areas of service, we believe women should consider this
factor when evaluating whether or not they actually have the
dominant gift of shepherding. They may want to also look closely
at their second dominant gift.
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the Participant Guide (below) and Team Ministry
downloadable text. Works for an eight-week class
or a four-hour seminar. Leaders should acquire the
Team Ministry: How to Find Meaning and
Fulfillment through Understanding the Spiritual Gift
Within You REVISED edition and be familiar with it
before teaching. All participants should complete
the Team Ministry Spiritual Gifts Inventory, either
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3. Printed Team Ministry Spiritual Gifts
Inventories with their self-scoring, carbonless answer
sheets, are available in English, Spanish, Korean, and
English Youth versions. A childrens variation, Gods
Special Gifts for Me, is also available.

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(on CD), and Dr. Larry Gilbert's Team Ministry Spiritual Gifts seminar on
DVD, and Inventory Sample Pack (10 different discovery tools). The perfect
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Group Spiritual Gifts Database: Add
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members of your church or group complete
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get an instant personalized report, you can
choose to receive an e-mailed copy of their
results, plus well save all the data so you
download it for your personal evaluation,
education, and ministry placement. You
can also manually add results from the
printed Spiritual Gifts Inventories and print
personalized analysis reports for each
member while adding their results to your
groups database. (For a sample copy of
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Inventory Sample Packet

The Inventory Sample Packet contains 10
different self-discovery inventories! If you are curious
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