Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow (Paperback)

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Product Description

Identifies and discusses 27 spiritual gifts. Tells you how to find your gift and outlines how you can use gifts effectively. There are five steps to help you use your spiritual gifts to build God's kingdom.

About the Author

C. Peter Wagner is widely recognized as a leading authority in the fields of church growth and spiritual warfare.  Wagner is cofounder of the World Prayer Center and is chancellor of the Wagner Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  He is the author of editor of more than 50 books, including Churchquake!, Changing Church and Acts of the Holy Spirit.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Regal Books; 15th Anniv edition (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830716815
• ISBN-13: 978-0830716814
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #201,950 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful information, November 12, 2000

By	yarden "yarden" (portland, or) - See all my reviews

This book is perfect for those members of the church body who want to help but aren't sure where to begin. It's also perfect for pastors who want to teach on spiritual gifting, and also encourage church members to exercise their spiritual gifts with benefit to the church.

Wagner's writing is succinct, humorous, and clear. This book sheds light not only on different spiritual gifts, but theories surrounding them (the book draws from several lists in the Bible, none of which completely mention every spiritual gift), common misconceptions, as well as a test in the back of the book to help each person begin to get a sense of what his or her spiritual gifts might be.

The book is geared toward using spiritual gifts to help the church grow, and therefore focuses on some spiritual gifts more than others (to my disappointment, the ones barely touched upon seemed more relevant to me than the ones greatly expounded upon -- ah well, another book perhaps). I appreciated Wagner's candor and openness to other scholar's theories about spiritual giftings, as well as his standpoints on misuses of spiritual gifts.

This book is highly recommended as a place to begin your studies on spiritual giftings, especially in the context of gifts within the church body.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Help For Church Leaders, February 5, 1999

By	Dee Erickson ([e-mail]) (Stafford, Tx) - See all my reviews

Having taught many seminars over the past seven years on Spiritual Gifts and having helped hundreds of people to find thier unique call to ministry through their giftedness, I found this little book to be a treasure of information. It succinctly describes the value of helping church members discover thier gifts and function out of them, leading to fulfilling and enthusiastic service for the Kingdom of God. Church leaders who have read this book in our setting have stopped looking for just "warm breathing bodies" to fill a position, but instead look for a person whose giftedness qualifies them for it and therefore classic burn-out is kept at a minnimum. Peter Wagner is easy to read and speaks clearly to the lay person.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, January 2, 2008

By	M. Hurlbut (Kansas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I don't think they could pack much more info into one book. It has refernces and shows how the author backs up his information. If you have people willing to really make thier church grow this book will help.