Discovering Our Spiritual Gifts: A Spiritual Gifts Inventory
Discovering
Our Spiritual Gifts--An Inventory is a personal assessment tool
developed to assist you in the process of identifying which spiritual
gifts you may possess. The inventory consists of 100 statements. Some
of these statements communicate concrete action, some are descriptive
terms, and others are statements of personal values and beliefs.
Directions
As
you read each statement, decide to what degree that statement is
characteristic or descriptive of you. Use the following scale to make
your assessment:
5 - Highly Characteristic of Me
4 - Very Characteristic of Me
3 - Frequently Characteristic of Me
2 - Somewhat Characteristic of Me
1 - Not at all Characteristic of Me
Select
the appropriate numerical response for each item. Record the response
in the blank space provided. Reflect on each statement, but do not
spend too much time on any one item. In general, your immediate
response is the best one. Please give a response for each item.
Each
spiritual gift described in the scriptures is listed in this table.
Based on the information that you provided about yourself in the
inventory, the total scores recorded are an indicator of which
spiritual gift(s) you might possess. A high score (between 20 and 25)
in one or more of the twenty categories means that you have described
yourself as having characteristics highly consistent with that gift.
These scores, however, are only an initial indicator of your
giftedness. As you continue to explore your giftedness using these
materials, please feel free to challenge, to disagree with, or to
affirm the results of the inventory as appropriate.
An Initial Listing of My Spiritual Gifts
What are the three gifts on which you received the highest scores?
Tips
- If
you scored highly on a number of gifts, with no one or two gifts above
the others, take the inventory again and be more discriminating about
your responses (i.e. fewer 5's and 4's).
- If
you had low scores on a number of gifts, with no one or two scores
above the others, take the inventory again and be less discriminating
about your responses (i.e. more 4's and 5's).
Questions
- Do you agree with the results of the inventory?
- Were you surprised by any of the results?
- Have other persons affirmed these same gifts in you?
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