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Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts: A Personal Inventory Method

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It's likely one will find Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts, once it arrives, quite disappointing. DYSG is subtitled, "A Personal Inventory Method." Actually, it is a pamphlet-sized questionnaire. The best feature: a bibliography. Wagner's Finding Your Spiritual Gifts is much more complete, costs less, factors in "subordinate gifts," and gives scripture references for his definitions of the gifts. See also, Spiritual Gifts Inventory by Team Ministry. FYI: Both questionnaires assume tongues as a modern, available gift--"non-charismatics" might find a few questions enigmatic.

This questionnaire will take about one-hour of time to seriously answer the questions. Once you complete the quiz, you add up your score and the top four items are your gifts. It's that easy. There are scripture references and spiritual gift descriptions to guide you. A wonderful book for small groups and bible studies.

The more honest you are, the better your results will be. In solitude and after much prayer, I took the spiritual gift inventory. Two hundred statements later, I was a bit surprised at the results--but they made sense, based on my Christian experience. Readers will find the inventory thorough and interesting. Definitely recommended!

Highly recommended as a tool for confirming or discovering your spiritual gifts. I have taken at least 4 spiritual gifts tests and this one has been the most comprehensive and accurate-there was an area of gifting that I knew existed, but I didn't know exactly what it was until taking this test-the only test I have seen that separates the gift of giving into 2 categories. I never fit the traditional mold because my gifting is geared toward needs rather than the more general and more recognized gift of giving. This is just one example of the thoroughness of the test. There are likely other good ones out there, but this has been the best I have seen yet and worth the time it takes to complete.

This book is one of the only books that addresses speaking in tongues and tongues as if they are for today. The definitions for each gift or talent are pretty good and is a helpful book for evaluation. It is probably a good idea to use several of these type of test and not just rely on one. The problem with these types of books is that the definitions are somewhat arbritrary guess work, because Paul does not give us the kind of full definition that we would want for each gift. Also, the questions used to get the results are somewhat arbritrary as well. However, this is as good of a book and test as I have seen. There are 200 questions and the grading system is easy. The book is about 28 pages, which is good, because it does not waste too much time at getting to the good stuff.

This pamphlet is an inexpensive resource to use when conducting a spiritual gifts inventory or small group study. It offers clear explanations of the gifts and an easily readable inventory. The main detraction is that the answer sheet is printed in such light ink that those with sight challenges could not read it which made it hard to score properly. While this may have been done to help prevent copying, it is a serious weakness for the inventory when using it with a group with visually impaired participants.