What are your spiritual gifts?

April 27, 2010 in Other Stuff with 24 Comments

Here’s a free spiritual gifts assessment we use for everyone we hire at West Ridge. This is one of several profiles we use to make sure we are hiring the right person for the right role.

I just took the test again today. Here are my top five gifts according to this assessment:

Apostle
Leadership
Administration
Discernment
Giving

Probably won’t surprise you to learn that “mercy” was near the bottom of the list right above speaking in tongues. (Sorry my charismatic friends.)

How has God wired you? Just curious to know the profile of the folks that are a part of this conversation.

24 Responses to “What are your spiritual gifts?”

Dale Schaeffer April 27, 2010 at 9:20 pm #

1. Apostleship
2. Leadership
3. Evangelism
4. Teaching
5. Administration
Brian Burris April 27, 2010 at 10:35 pm #

1. Discernment of Spirits
2. Faith
3. Intercession
4. Shepherd
5. Service

I agreed with discernment and shepherd immediately, but the others surprised me. #2 could explain why people react toward me like they do sometimes. Very cool!
Nick Blevins April 28, 2010 at 12:17 am #

We just discussed our spiritual gifts assessment results tonight with a small group of our volunteers. Great conversations.

Mine are leadership, administration and apparently word of wisdom, but up until recently #3 was always teaching.
Anne Jackson April 28, 2010 at 1:53 am #

The top 4 were tied (20), the last 2 were tied (19)
Giving
Voluntary Poverty
Discerning of Spirits
Miracles
Mercy
Wisdom
Dave Hess April 28, 2010 at 6:33 am #

I’d been looking for something like this. Thanks for sharing!
Chris Hill April 28, 2010 at 9:38 am #

Top two tied at 19, others tied at 18:

1. Hospitality
2. Discernment
3. Apostle
4. Service
5. Wisdom

All very practical as expected.
Craig Strauss April 28, 2010 at 10:04 am #

1.Apostleship
Craig Strauss April 28, 2010 at 10:12 am #

1. Apostleship
2. Administration
3. Faith
4. Leadership
5. Wisdom & Discernment

Tony or anyone else who might have some insight, what would be a good role for me considering my gift mix? Any input would be greatly helpful and appreciated.
Rick Smith April 28, 2010 at 10:26 am #

1.Missionary
2a.Administration
2b.Leadership
4a.Discerning
4b.Wisdom
Marc Millan April 28, 2010 at 10:49 am #

Great stuff.
Andrés April 28, 2010 at 2:12 pm #

1. Faith

2. Giving

3. Sheperd

4. Exhortation

5. Mercy
Hal Hunter April 28, 2010 at 2:41 pm #

Shepherd
Teaching
Giving
Helps
Discernment

I also tanked the mercy – right down there with tongues and casting out demons.

Certainly crafted from a Pentecostal/Charismatic theological approach. We use this one http://www.churchgrowth.org/cgi-cg/gifts.cgi?intro=1 that might be a bit more theologically neutral.
C Olson April 28, 2010 at 2:41 pm #

1. Evagelism
2. Exhortation
3. Service
Jason Kruit April 28, 2010 at 3:02 pm #

Leadership
Apostleship
Administration
Teaching
Arts

We use to do a half-day workshop on Gifts and now have moved it online. http://sga.heartland.cc
Danny Bixby April 28, 2010 at 3:09 pm #

Discernment

The next 4 were tied:

Administration
Apostle
Knowledge
Leadership

And this one right behind:

Wisdom
Gene Troyer April 28, 2010 at 3:23 pm #

1. knowledge
2. administration
3. faith
4. leadership
next 3 were tied
5. apostle, giving, shepherd
mike brennan April 28, 2010 at 3:24 pm #

I tied for the first two at 18, then the tied the last three with 16.

1. Faith
2. Shepherd
3. Leadership
4. Apostle
5. Administration

interesting how it divided some stuff up. Thanks for posting the link. It’s been awhile since i’ve taken one. Always good to see where you’re at. Thanks Tony.
Casie Stevens April 29, 2010 at 11:00 am #

Giving
Leadership
Apostle
Knowledge
Administration

Just call me, Glaka;)
Andrew Kulp April 29, 2010 at 1:22 pm #

Tony,

I’m glad to hear that you use the Gifted2Serve Spiritual Gifts Inventory at West Ridge. I am the author, also an architect, and working on church-planter in Towson, Maryland.

If there’s anything I can do to make the experience better, let me know! When I get some funding, we plan on revamping the BuildingChurch.net web site with better technology, feedback system, etc.

Any web-designer folks out there that would like to help us, feel free to let me know!
@delton70 April 29, 2010 at 6:02 pm #

This is the way the apostles run
Peter, Andrew, James and … Delton?
Not exactly the gift i expected to see
Paul? Yes. Peter? Yes. But me? Really?

Leadership is a gift i recognized early
i noticed that it kept creeping in naturally
whatever the situation, i tended to lead
not usually cause i wanted to, but when i sensed the need

“You can’t out-give God” i’m quite fond of saying
But you CAN out-give your checkbook if you give without praying
Giving may comes easily, and i love to provide support
but my friends remind me to be cautious for “when helping hurts”

i tend not to worry and i rarely fret
about things of this world cause faith is the opposite
i may not walk on water or throw mountains to the sea
but i truly believe that my God can use even me

knowledge and teaching seem to go hand-in-hand
i tend to have the right word from God for my friends
i take truth from the scriptures and process it just so
that i’m able to share that in a way that hits home
Scott Smith April 30, 2010 at 10:47 am #

This is the second time I’ve seen this posted this week!

Mine came up:
Shepherd
Knowledge
Teaching
Giving
Leadership

I think personality type is a very interesting ingredient as well. Lots of tests online. Last one I did was an FB app … http://apps.facebook.com/my-type/
I came up ENTJ for whatever it’s worth…

I was interested about Hal’s observation about a bias. I’ll have to check out the link he posted as well.

Now – what to do with all this info?!