“I took a quiz on spiritual gifts a while back and I scored 89% on three of them- serving/helping, mercy, and exhortation. Those all make sense to me, especially when you take my interests into account. I have a passion for community outreach, local missions, helping other people in big ways and small ways, and encouraging people. What I want to do is figure out how to combine my interests, talents, and gifts to find exactly where I fit.”
Sound familiar? I am working through the same process right now! Only now I am not just trying to determine where I fit best in church; I'm trying to figure out where I fit best in life.
Interestingly, I recently took another “spiritual gifts” quiz, this time through the Chazown website. According to this quiz, my top five, in order from highest to lowest, are:
Mercy- the ability to feel sincere compassion beyond normal Christian sympathy for persons who are in distress and to provide practical support to meet their needs; cheerful ministry to the undeserving and those who are in crisis
Exhortation- ability to bring out the best in others by means of encouraging, challenging, comforting, and guiding; the gift of counseling others to become all God wants them to be
Giving- unique capacity to comprehend the financial needs related to the growth of God’s kingdom and to meet those needs by contributing eagerly and generously; the ability to give sacrificially to the Lord’s work
Hospitality- unique capacity to welcome individuals or groups into one’s home in order to share fellowship, food, or lodging; desire and willingness to open one’s home to others
Faith- ability to see God’s purpose in a situation and to trust his wisdom and power to accomplish that purpose; gift of vision which enables one to believe God for what seems impossible
Some of the same things keep coming up, don't they?
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