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Post by Pastor Eric on Sept 17, 2013 9:16:16 GMT -7
What do you see as your spiritual gift(s)?
Please tell us! Did it surprise you?
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Post by Pastor Eric on Sept 17, 2013 9:18:39 GMT -7
When I told the Spiritual [Motivational] Gifts test that we handed out on Sunday, I was not surprised when my top gifts tied were Prophesy (proclaiming God's word) and Teaching. (Administration was then my third). That answer doesn't surprise me at all.
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Post by Cathy Coburn on Sept 17, 2013 9:38:29 GMT -7
I have the gift of encouragement. I have taken that test many times and this is always at the top.
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Post by rejeana on Sept 18, 2013 10:29:51 GMT -7
What do you see as your spiritual gift(s)?
Please tell us! Did it surprise you?
Anyone who's been around me in the past when these kind of tests are administered knows that they make me crazy. I used to study over which answer to check. When I was through with one of the personality tests, I felt like there should be another category just for me; i.e., psychotic.  This time, I breezed through the test quickly, using my first instinct and not changing the answers.
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Post by Pastor Eric on Sept 18, 2013 10:59:54 GMT -7
Rejeana, your answer made me smile. I fully understand your frustration with these types of tests. It doesn't surprise me at all that your gifts are Admin and Teaching. I hope you see joy when you look back and see how you have used these gifts for ministry!
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Post by Joseph Wegert on Sept 18, 2013 13:50:44 GMT -7
My spiritual gifts were most strongly Wisdom and then Teaching. My third is Administration, but it is not high as the other two.
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Post by Heather on Sept 18, 2013 14:07:27 GMT -7
Well, I wasn't in the service on Sunday (so I don't know the ones listed on your test), but I'm good at overseeing and organizing (would that be administration?). I'm good at teaching also, but not particularly fond of it... but I do like teaching my own children:-D When I've taken the test before, I remember getting high scores in Wisdom.
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Post by Megan Johnson on Sept 18, 2013 15:53:39 GMT -7
Rejeana, I knew there were a million reasons why you're a good mentor for me. My top two: Teaching and Administration... though I desperately dislike administration and LOVE teaching! When I think of the jobs, ministries and other roles I've enjoyed most, they've all had to do with either teaching or administration.
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Post by karen on Sept 20, 2013 10:49:56 GMT -7
The best spiritual gifts info I have ever seen is a book called Discover Your God-Given gifts. Cleone turned me on to it and I've learned a lot from getting my own copy and going through it. Because the word "prophecy" can be confusing and sometime ominous, they use the word "perceiver" instead and that's my main gift, going hand in hand with discernment. The main role of a perceiver would be prayer, but I'm nowhere near where I should be for that! Teaching comes up for me, too, but it's not as natural; I have to work at it.
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This time, I breezed through the test quickly, using my first instinct and not changing the answers. 
