Don Everts – Discover Your Gifts

How can we discover and develop our gifts? Brent’s guest is Don Everts, Senior Pastor of First and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri and a writer for Lutheran Hour Ministries and the Hopeful Neighborhood Project. Don’s new IVP America book is called ‘Discover Your Gifts- Celebrating How God Made You and Everyone You Know’.  (1:00) Everyone has gifts; (2:05) How Don’s stepfather inspired him; (4:30) Research on gifts; (6:00) The need to focus not only on spiritual gifts but common grace gifts as well; (7:20) Why we tend to fixate on church vocations; (10:30) Gifts and different generations.  Younger generations more often to finding their gifts; (12:15) Millenials and gifts; (13:05) Tools pastors can use to discern common gifts; (14:20) How the church can reignite gift development; (15:20) Mentoring; (16:45) The church as a place to discover your gifts; (20:00) How churches can engage with their communities. Links mentioned in this episode: IV Press Everygift Inventory Don Everts ' Discover Your Gifts - Celebrating How God Made You and Everyone You Know'   Leave some feedback: What should we talk about? Please let us know in the comments. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please give us a rating and leave a short review. Connect with us: [email protected] godsstorypodcast.com Become a Supporter: If you’d like to help us make more great episodes like this one, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll receive early access to new episodes plus bonus episodes and other goodies from time to time, and our undying gratitude. Thanks to our sponsors, Liquid Edge Creative who take care of the technical stuff behind the scenes.