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Spiritual Gifts

Discovering and Using Your Spiritual Gifts:

How has God uniquely gifted me for service?

Romans 12:6  Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, /let us use them:/ if prophecy, /let us/ /prophesy/ in proportion to our faith;

 

 

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Misunderstanding spiritual gifts

            Spiritual gifts are not solely natural abilities

 

1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual /gifts,/ brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:

 

Galatians 1:15-16  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called /me/ through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

 

            Spiritual gifts are not solely personality temperaments

 

! Personality Type Equivalents

| *Table of Equivalents for the 4 Personality Types * |

| D.E.S.A. | Dominant | Expressive | Solid | Analytical |

| Hippocrates Greek Terms (370 BC) | Choleric | Sanguine | Phlegmatic | Melancholy |

| "What's My Style?" (WMS) | Direct | Spirited | Considerate | Systematic |

| The P's | Powerful | Popular | Peaceful | Perfect |

| The S's | Self-propelled | Spirited | Solid | Systematic |

| The A's | Administrative | Active | Amiable | Analytical |

| LEAD Test | Leader | Expressor | Dependable | Analyst |

| ARRAY (Jonathan Knaupp) | Production | Connection | Status Quo | Harmony |

| Biblical Characters | Paul | Peter | Abraham | Moses |

| Gary Smalley | Lion | Otter | Golden Retriever (Dog) | Beaver |

| Geier | Dominance | Influencing | Competence | Steadiness |

| DiSC(r) | Dominance | Influencing of Others | Steadiness | Cautiousness~/ \\ Compliance |

| McCarthy~/4MAT System | Common Sense | Dynamic | Innovative | Analytic |

| Merrill ~/ Wilson | Driver | Expressive | Amiable | Analytic |

| Plato (340 BC) | Guardian | Artisan | Philosopher | Scientist |

| Kretschner (1920) | Melancholic | Hypomanic | Anesthetic | Hyperasthetic |

| Sprangler (1930) | Religious | Aesthetic | Theoretic | Economic |

| Fromm (1947) | Hoarding | Exploiting | Receptive | Marketing |

| Psycho-Geometrics (1978) | Triangle | Squiggle | Circle | Square~/Rectangle |

| Type A or B | Type B \\ Motivated | Type B \\ Messy | Type A \\ Casual | Type A \\ Compulsive |

| PSI | Controller | Promoter | Supporter | Analyst |

| Brokenleg \\ Reclaiming Youth at Risk | Mastery \\ Achiever \\ Power | Belonging \\ Attached \\ Significance | Generosity \\ Altruistic \\ Virtue | Independence \\ Autonomous \\ Competence |

| Enneagram | Adventurer \\ Achiever | Helper \\ Romantic | Peacemaker \\ Observer | Asserter \\ Perfectionist |

| Animals | Bear | Monkey | Dolphin | Owl |

| True Colors(r) (1978) | Green | Orange | Blue | Gold |

| Children's Literature | Rabbit | Tigger | Pooh | Eeyore |

| Charlie Brown Characters | Lucy | Snoopy | Charlie Brown | Linus |

| Jane Austen Novel Characters | Emma Woodhouse | Lydia Bennet | Elizabeth Bennet | Marianne Dashwood |

| Comics | Jason | Snoopy | Cathy | Ziggy |

| Who Moved My Cheese?

\\ (by Spencer Johnson, M.D.) | Sniff | Scurry | Haw | Hem |

| The Celestine Prophecy \\ (by James Redfield) | Intimidator | Poor Me | Aloof | Interrogator |

 

* Proponents of this theory declare that man is comprised of four temperaments, each having its own special characteristic.

* Hippocrates in the fifth century proposed that there are four liquids in the human body which determine a persons health.

The four liquids are 1) blood, 2) phlegm, 3) chole (yellow bile), and 4) melanchole (black bile).

* This temperament chart is based on general observations, and may not have any real merit.

Spiritual gifts are not the fruit of the Spirit

 

Galatians 5:22-23  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control.

Against such there is no law.

Godly attitudes that characterize the lives of only those who belong to God by faith in Christ and possess the Spirit of God.

The Spirit produces fruit which consists of 9 characteristics or attitudes that are inextricably linked with each and are commanded of believers throughout the NT.

*love.*

One of several words for love, /agape, /is the love of choice, referring not to an emotional affection, physical attraction, or a familial bond, but to respect, devotion, and affection that leads to willing, self-sacrificial service (John 15:13; Rom.

5:8; 1 John 3:16, 17).[1]

Spiritual gifts are God-given abilities

 

* The primary function of spiritual gifts are for serving

 

1 Corinthians 12:5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.

* God gifts us to perform service in His strength

 

1 Corinthians 12:6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

* Spiritual gifts are visible services preformed for others

 

1 Corinthians 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit /of all:/

/ /

* When you exercise your gift in the service of other believers, it is to be recognized as the manifestation, the display of the Spirit of God.

God has chosen to minister to His people through us.

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Understanding spiritual gifts

            Revelatory gifts

 

* Helped start the church.

Provided revelation of previously unrevealed truths an ability to communicate those truths with authority.

 

1 Corinthians 12:28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

 

1 Corinthians 12:8-10  for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another /different/ kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

Apostleship

 

Acts 1:21-22  “Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Prophecy

 

* Speaking forth the truth of God

 

1 Corinthians 14:29-30 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.

30 But if /anything/ is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.

Distinguishing spirits

 

* Supernatural ability to discern things

 

1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

Word of wisdom

 

* Knowledge put to practical use

            Word of knowledge

 

* Revelatory knowledge

 

 

            Confirmatory gifts

 

* Confirmed the inspired message.

Tongues secondary purpose was revelatory, primary was confirmation.

Faith

 

1 Corinthians 13:2 And though I have /the gift of/ prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Acts 27:22  And now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Healing

 

Acts 6:3 Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of /good/ reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business;

 

            Miracles

1 Corinthians 12:10  to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another /different/ kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

Tongues

 

Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Interpretation of tongues

 

1 Corinthians 14:27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, /let there be/ two or at the most three, /each/ in turn, and let one interpret.

Speaking gifts

 

* Depends on the divine revelation given to the church.

* Purpose is for edification