Take a class on spiritual gifts and ministry. The
Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has a curriculum for this very
topic. It is called Connections. It includes eight lessons, although it is
sometimes taught in a single weekend or four weekly sessions. It includes
several paper instruments that explore not only your gifts, but also your interests
and your personality style or how you interact with others. It is designed to
be taught by a team of church members and/or the pastor. It includes some
presentations on video or DVD, as well as group discussions and a one-on-one
interview by a “consultant” (a trained church member) at the end to wrap up
what you have learned and explore how to implement the findings.
Ask around in your church. If there are no plans to have a
Connections class at some time in the next year, then ask the pastor to get the
seminar package from AdventSource and at least share the textbook with you or,
perhaps, go through the course with you in an individual tutorial.
This is an important note to class this section on finding
your spiritual gifts: Not every believer spends the rest of their life with the
same gift mix. Some do, working for years at the same ministry. But it is clear
that others are called to new and different ministries over time. Finding your
spiritual gifts is not necessarily a permanent discovery. God may call you to
something different at some point in the future. We must always begin every day
by thanking God for the opportunity to serve Him again and asking if He has new
directions for us.
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