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Spiritual Gifts
Discovering your Spiritual Gifts can open doors for great ways to serve the Lord.
One of the best ways to uncover your Spiritual Gift is in the context of community. We would encourage you to join a Rooted Group and dive in to discovery together. Rooted is a pathway to strengthen your connection with God, the Church, and your purpose. Click here to learn more about Rooted.
Additionally, a personal Spiritual Gift Assessment is available to you! By answering a series of questions, your strengths can emerge in possibly unexpected ways.We would encourage you to:
- Complete this spiritual gifts analysis online
- Answer the questions in about 20 uninterrupted minutes.
- Consider how you might unwrap and use your Spiritual Gift!
Spiritual Gifts List
This profile highlights the Spiritual Gifts related to serving together in the local church:
ADMINISTRATION: Leader/Organizer - The inward motivation to organize and coordinate the activities and efforts of others and to set goals for them to meet in these efforts.
EVANGELISM: To Bring The Good News - The enablement to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that they respond and move forward in a saving relationship with Christ.
EXHORTATION: Encourager/Advisor - The inward motivation to stimulate action in others through counsel and to outline practical steps others should take to overcome problems.
GIVING: Contributor/Supporter - The inward motivation to provide financial support for other worthwhile people, projects and organizations and to wisely use and invest money to provide for such support.
MERCY: Comforter/Empathizer - The inward motivation to identify with the emotions of others and to provide comfort to those who are in emotional distress.
PROCLAIMING: Prophesier/Protector - The inward motivation to publicly speak out concerning God's truth and to call others to what is right.
SERVING: Helper/Provider - The inward motivation to detect legitimate needs others have and to find practical ways to provide for these needs.
SHEPHERD/PASTOR: To Shepherd A Flock - The divine ability to nurture, care for, and guide people toward a deeper relationship with Christ.
TEACHING: Researcher/Instructor - The inward motivation to carefully research truth and to clearly present truth to the others in such a way that it will be easy to learn.
Sermon Notes - March 20, 2022
Love Deeply (1 Peter 4:8-11) - Jon Furman
1 Peter 4:8 (NLT)
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
“cover a multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 4:9-10 (NLT)
Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay. God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
1 Corinthians 12:4, 8-10 (NLT)
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all…To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy…
1 Peter 4:11 (NLT)
Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
Use your gift as an ambassador/representative of God.
Use your gifts in God’s strength, not your own.
Use your gifts to make God great, not yourself.