June 05, 2008

Spiritual Gifts

Well I had the opportunity of taking several spiritual gift tests before and kept the results and apart from that we've been discusing then at Mark's house every Monday during our Student Leader's Meetings.

Some of the gifts where I got high marks, taking in consideration both tests which I took, were Mercy, Pastoring, Faith, Discernment, Evangelism, Leadership, Music, but the highest ones were Exhortation (Encouragement) and Hospitality.

In Mark's house we were asked to do like a Top 5 of what we believe were our spiritual gifts and mine were (in no particular order) Exhortation, Evangelism, Mercy, Hopsitality, and Pastoring.

I was a bit surprised with some but I had already seen God working through me in certain ways so I was sure about some. It's always an amazing experience to search and find your spiritual gifts. Remember it doesnt always have to do ANYTHING with your personality at all sometimes it can be something completely different from how you are or act.

3 comments:

Jeff Penn said...

You said that your spiritual gifts don't have anything at all to do with your personality. You really think that? You think people with laid back, follower-type personalities have leadership as one of their gifts? Or hard-nosed, decision-maker types have mercy as their spiritual gift?
-Jeff

Josiah's Peru Blog said...

You have some of the same gifts I do!! haha I had a very high leadership percentage. I had never really thought about it, but you are a leader to many people, especially the kids in your small group. Keep it up man!

Vielka said...

I agree with Jeff. Spiritual gifts sometimes getto do with personality...but not all the time. Im excited that you know your spiritual giftsand keep using them for his great purpose