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GraceGifts Spiritual Gifts Test
THE BENEFIT TO YOUR CHURCH
Most spiritual gift surveys fail to explain how people prefer to use their gifts, leaving leaders guessing. Not so with our GraceGift’s Gift Expressions! You’ll know exact applications for each person.
An Introduction to Our Spiritual Gifts Test
The GraceGifts© spiritual gifts test from AssessME.org is one of the finest tools available to help church leaders find and manage volunteers.
Note: You can view the full list of spiritual gifts on the right side or bottom of your screen, depending on the device you’re using.
By default, our spiritual gifts test utilizes the practical gifts, which are affected by one’s temperament. We call these temperament filtered results, “Gift Expressions.”
At no additional cost, if your church desires, you may activate the Revelatory List of gifts (these have a * next to them in the list). This special category of gifts is addressed near the end of this page.
GraceGifts is part of a group of assessment tools that work together to help people get mobilized into ministry service. We recommend using the spiritual gifts test along side our ePersonality© and Leadership Style© assessments. When used together, they provide cross-validation for one another, checking results to ensure each assessment is accurate.
Temperament-Driven Gift Expressions
AssessME.org is the only platform that clarifies spiritual gift results by filtering spiritual gifts through personality traits. This helps people understand better how they will apply their spiritual gifts in real ministry situations. We call these special results “Gift Expressions.”
Take a look at the screenshots of the GraceGifts© management interface below. You can see the “Gift Expressions” in the second image.
GraceGifts Bar Graphs & Data Tables
Spiritual Gifts And Related Gift Expressions
The Spiritual Gifts Manual Search + Plus Automated Search
The AssessME.org administrative dashboard includes a search engine that helps your church staff search the database not only for primary giftings (look for the black labels); it also allows staff to find people who match related Gift Expressions as well as other combinations of personality, leadership style, skills, and spiritual maturity. Church staff can create any profile combination within the Search Engine and the people who most closely match will be listed for review.
The AssessME.org Ministry Dashboard also includes an automated search function. This automated program assesses data from all of the assessments and skills tracking and presents “The Most Validated People” for broad service functions. The people listed by this program do not include all potential candidates, simply those who based upon the data the system identifies as “Most Validated“. In the screenshot below, the system has identified only six people that are the most validated Administrators in the database. Select the link for the six people to view their profiles.
Spiritual Gifts, Gift Expressions, & Cross-Validation
Each person’s Gift Expressions should closely match their ePersonality© and Leadership Style© assessment reports. This is part of our cross-validation system to make sure the assessment results are accurate. (Please note that not all gifts are shown below.)
Gift Expressions:
Content Administrator
Human Resource Administrators
Organizational Administrator
Gift Expressions:
Communication Arts
Craftsmanship Arts
Graphic Arts
Musical Arts
Performing Arts
Relational Arts
Technical Arts
Visual Arts
Gift Expressions:
Counseling Ministry
Front Line Evangelism Ministry
Instructional Accountability Ministry
Restoration & Recovery Ministries
Gift Expressions:
Biblical Instructor
Personal Mentorship
Pastoral Shepherding
Gift Expressions:
Serving Ministry Leadership
Supporting Risky Ministry Ventures
Sacrificing Self for Welfare of Others
Gift Expressions:
Personal/Relational Evangelism
Programmed Evangelism
Gift Expressions:
Financial or Material Provision
Physical, Emotional or Spiritual Restoration
Risky Ministry Opportunities
Gift Expressions:
Giving of Abilities
Sharing of Resources
Sacrificing Time
Gift Expressions:
I prefer to help individuals
Support ministry teams
Gift Expressions:
Management / Administration
Encouraging Leadership
Pastoral Leadership
Pioneering Leadership
Strategic Leadership
Team Leadership
Gift Expressions:
Lead Vocalist
Musician
Support Vocalist
Worship Leader
Gift Expressions:
Cross-Cultural Missionary
New Community Impact Ministries
Church Planter
New e-Church Ministries
New Campus Ministries
Gift Expressions:
Administrative Pastor
Discipleship Pastor
Evangelistic Pastor
Nurturing Pastor
Teaching Pastor
Gift Expressions:
Foretelling future events
Pastoral preaching
Word of Knowledge
Gift Expressions:
Budget and Financial Management Consulting
Cost/Effectiveness Analysis of Ministry Programming
Manager of Ministry Finances
My Personal Resources for the Sake of the Kingdom
Gift Expressions:
Classroom Instruction
Children’s Ministries Instructor
eLearning Instruction
Large Group Corporate Instruction
One-On-One Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Student Ministries Instructor
Types of Spiritual Gifts
People often argue about how many Spiritual Gifts are mentioned in the Bible. These debates usually stem from different traditions. However, we don’t focus on those arguments. Instead, we look at the whole Bible and see that there are three main categories of giftedness…
About Skills: In the Old Testament, God says that He gives us our skill-abilities (Exodus 31:3). That’s why GraceGifts© includes Old Testament skill-gifts like Creativity and Music/Worship. God gave these skills for special roles, such as Temple Gatekeepers and Craftsmen (1 Chronicles 23:5). In essence, these are Old Testament spiritual gifts granted to us by the Holy Spirit.
The Practical Spiritual Gifts, which are primarily found in the New Testament, are the main focus of our spiritual gift test. How a person uses their gift depends on their personality. Personality filtered gifts are called Gift Expressions. Our gift list includes skill-based gifts from both the New and Old Testaments. These gifts comprise our default spiritual gift list.
Revelatory spiritual gifts, which are also known as “self-evident gifts”, are spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit displays through people in the moment. In fact, John Wimber, founder the Vineyard church movement, categorized these gifts as “Gifts of Divine Intervention“.
Unlike practical gifts, these gifts are not directly held by the Christian, and so they are not influenced by one’s personality. The Holy Spirit manifests the gift through an individual, so for example, God may inspire you to pray over a sick person and the person is healed. Your personality did not influence the effectiveness of the prayer, nor may the Lord ever again utilize you for the healing of another infirmed person. The healing was a “Gift of Divine Intervention”.
Please note, some theological traditions view Prophecy only as “Holy Spirit-inspired preaching” from the Greek rendering “To speak forth”. Because of this interpretation, we have now added Prophecy to the default gift list. (See the related Gift Expressions in the table above).
Our Revelatory Spiritual Gifts
The Revelatory Gifts are listed below and may be activated within our GraceGifts spiritual gifts test at no extra cost.
GraceGifts Spiritual Gifts Overview Video
Our Training Book for Implementing Spiritual Gifts
Made for a Mission© helps ministry leaders learn how to use our mobilization assessments effectively in their church. This training will show you important information that you might miss if you just use our assessments casually without training. For example, you will learn how to understand the unique results that can help identify individuals who may not be safe for your ministry.
Spiritual Gift Reports
Spiritual Gift Reports
Training Resources
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