This is for our upcoming Monday night study on June 6th at 7:00 p.m. This week we are exploring the gifts of the Spirit! Here's a link to the "Spiritual Gifts" test that you can click on or copy and paste on your browser and it will open up as a pdf file. You can save it to your computer and/or print it out.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxwuJtNXO9QcWN5TGNMWEJXbVk/view?usp=sharing
Here's a link to the description of the Spiritual Gifts - once you have taken the test, you can read about all the gifts that are listed. It's 28 pages long, so you may not want to print it all out, but you can read it on your phone, your laptop or tablet.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxwuJtNXO9QM0lSWUJOdzNyX0k/view?usp=sharing
We will be adding some more information for you to read about in the next few days, but we wanted you to have this information earlier so you could go ahead and take the test.
(This part below was shared by Tony Baatz describing the purposes are and understanding more about the concept of spiritual gifts we receive from the Lord.)
We are given spiritual gifts when we surrender our lives and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. We should understand that one of the ways we mature as Christians is by exploring ways to practice using our gifts. Do you understand the purpose of developing and exercising your spiritual gifts? This is our personal ministry, to encourage, exhort, teach, preach, support, and supply each others needs.
One way we experience a deeper intimacy with God our heavenly Father, is to explore life with a sense of adventure, to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, to look for people, circumstances, and opportunities to honor and glorify our Father by using our gifts to serve God.
We talk about being the salt of the earth and light of God in the world as we are taught in scripture. Practically speaking, the use of salt as a preservative in preserving meat necessitates that the salt must be worked into the meat by rubbing the coarse salt into the surface of the meat. This requires our effort to accomplish. The result is that the meat is both preserved for the benefit of future use, it purifies by protecting the meat from spoiling by preventing it from being affected by bacteria, and the meat is tenderized as it ages. Thus exercising our gifts is applying the salt of the Holy Spirit into the lives of others, and accomplishes our role in proving the provision of God’s grace and preparing others to receive His grace in the work He has called us to do.
Even if you have taken a spiritual gifts assessment before, we encourage you to review the information and take the assessment. Over time our gifts change and God gives us more gifts and improves others. It's amazing to get the affirmation of His work in us as we grow up in the Lord!
We are given spiritual gifts when we surrender our lives and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. We should understand that one of the ways we mature as Christians is by exploring ways to practice using our gifts. Do you understand the purpose of developing and exercising your spiritual gifts? This is our personal ministry, to encourage, exhort, teach, preach, support, and supply each others needs.
One way we experience a deeper intimacy with God our heavenly Father, is to explore life with a sense of adventure, to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, to look for people, circumstances, and opportunities to honor and glorify our Father by using our gifts to serve God.
We talk about being the salt of the earth and light of God in the world as we are taught in scripture. Practically speaking, the use of salt as a preservative in preserving meat necessitates that the salt must be worked into the meat by rubbing the coarse salt into the surface of the meat. This requires our effort to accomplish. The result is that the meat is both preserved for the benefit of future use, it purifies by protecting the meat from spoiling by preventing it from being affected by bacteria, and the meat is tenderized as it ages. Thus exercising our gifts is applying the salt of the Holy Spirit into the lives of others, and accomplishes our role in proving the provision of God’s grace and preparing others to receive His grace in the work He has called us to do.
Even if you have taken a spiritual gifts assessment before, we encourage you to review the information and take the assessment. Over time our gifts change and God gives us more gifts and improves others. It's amazing to get the affirmation of His work in us as we grow up in the Lord!
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