Spiritual Gifts Survey
If you want to discover your gifts, you can take tests (like the one below), ask advice, and talk to those who see you in your day to day living. Each of those can have a role in understanding where the gift is and how it fits in the bigger pictures. But you will not actually know the gift until you care about someone enough to take action. When you do that, you are actually following the prompting of the Spirit. The gifts often emerge as you do it – or you find out quickly what isn’t your gift. The gift may just be for the moment, but there’s a good chance it may be the start of something bigger that God has in store for you.
Review the guide at the end of this survey. There are only 48 questions. Your answers will help determine which are your strongest Spiritual Gifts and how that might translate into ministry.
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Look at your top three results and the ministry types that your Spiritual Gifts are well suited for:
| Spiritual Gift | Potential Ministry Involvement |
| Administration | Planning teams; ministry coordinator; organizer of special events; chairperson |
| Discernment | Committee/Board member; youth ministry; counseling |
| Encouragement | Children’s ministry; visitation to the sick or shut-in; counseling; |
| Exhortation | Faith Formation leader, youth ministry volunteer, counseling; |
| Evangelism | Visitor calling; door-to-door visitation; outreach events; literature distribution; greeter |
| Faith | Prayer ministry; hospital visitation; committee;board member |
| Giving | Support missionaries; fund raising; stewardship board or ministry |
| Helps | Office helper; telephoning; teacher’s aid; usher; clean-up projects; information center host |
| Hospitality | Small group host; banquet server; new member sponsor; fellowship events; after mass fellowship; greeter |
| Intercession | Prayer partner; prayer groups, shut-in hospital visitation |
| Knowledge | Board/committee member; teaching; research; counseling; marriage enrichment |
| Leadership | Small group leader; Board/committee chairperson; teaching leader; youth/children’s leader |
| Mercy | Hospital/shut-in visitation; child-care volunteer; homeless or advocacy ministry; food pantry |
| Prophecy | Teaching Leader; vision setting team; outreach; devotion leadership |
| Shepherding | Small group leader; Faith Formation teacher; youth ministry volunteer; education committee |
| Teaching | Adult teaching leader; small group leader; faith formation teacher |
| Wisdom | Board/committee member; counseling; mentor; marriage enrichment |