Understanding Your Spiritual Gifts

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Understanding Your Spiritual Gifts

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You’ll do your best work for God when you apply your spiritual gifts. But what are those? Episode 83 of Faithful on the Clock explains and offers tips on how to discover what your gifts are.

Timestamps:

[00:04] - Intro

[00:39] - Spiritual gifts defined; differentiation between gifts vs. skills and talents

[02:11] - Spiritual gifts group 1 (leadership): administration, apostleship, evangelism, leadership, shepherding

[03:18] - Spiritual gifts group 2 (understanding): discernment, interpretation, knowledge, prophesy, teaching, tongues, wisdom

[05:52] - Spiritual gifts group 3 (tactical): faith, giving, healing, mercy, miracles, and service

[07:22] - People can have multiple spiritual gifts. When people know which gifts they have, we can have the right people in the right job in the right ratios for the church.

[08:41] - Options for figuring out your gifts include 1) taking an online test, 2) internal reflection about what you do (activities), 3) paying attention to feedback from others, and 4) looking at what you instinctively do in a crisis.

[11:19] - People often get into the wrong roles because they don’t know what their gifts are. This might be the case if you’re in a safe work environment with good people but still are unhappy or unfulfilled. Make sure there is alignment between your gifts and your roles each time you have the opportunity to advance in your career. Don’t be surprised if your gifts test surprises you, because sometimes we dismiss our gifts or don’t interpret them as assets. As a leader, be mindful of spiritual gifts during hiring rather than looking strictly at whether someone technically can do a job.

[13:47] - Prayer

[14:33] - Outro/What’s coming up next

Key takeaways:

• Spiritual gifts are capabilities that allow you to do work for God in a highly natural and effective way. They keep the church healthy. Within each gift, there can be many skills and talents. Spiritual gifts can be grouped into three broad categories: leadership, understanding, and tactical.
• Leadership gifts include administration, apostleship, evangelism, leadership, and shepherding.
• Understanding gifts include discernment, interpretation, knowledge, prophesy, teaching, tongues, and wisdom.
• Tactical gifts include faith, giving, healing, mercy, miracles, and service.
• Gifts do not necessarily have to be isolated. People can have multiple gifts at a time. 
• People can discover what their spiritual gifts are by 1) taking a test, 2) considering current activities, 3) listening to feedback about how they influence others in positive ways, and 4) identifying what they’re drawn to instinctively do in crisis situations.
• People often can get into jobs that are not a match for their spiritual gifts, which can make them unhappy and ineffective servants for God. It’s important to look for alignment between your spiritual gifts and the work you do to maximize your influence. People are not always aware of what their spiritual gifts really are if they continuously have been in a mismatch situation, or if they struggle to see their gifts in a positive way. Leaders should be on the lookout for spiritual gifts to make sure mismatching doesn’t happen in the workplace.

• FREE Spiritual Gifts Test - Spiritual Gifts Test - Discover Your Purpose

CTAs:

• Take at least one free spiritual gifts test.
• Consider the types of practical work you could do in your current organization or a future one, given the results of your gifts test. Strive to take action toward at least one of those areas of work.

What’s coming up next:

Professionals are told to set goals every day, but not every goal is fulfilling. Episode 84 of Faithful on the Clock offers a set of questions anyone can use to identify targets that will bring real satisfaction and purpose.

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