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Discovering Our Spiritual Gifts: A Spiritual Gifts AssessmentDiscovering Our Spiritual Gifts--An Assessment is a personal tool developed to assist you in the process of identifying which spiritual gifts you may possess. The assessment 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 assessment, 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 assessment as appropriate.
An Initial Listing of My Spiritual GiftsWhat 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 assessment?
- Were you surprised by any of the results?
- Have other persons affirmed these same gifts in you?
For more information about the nature of the individual gifts listed in the assessment, go to the next section of these materials--a listing of the gifts with their definitions. Next: The 20 Spiritual Gifts Defined
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