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Exploring Spiritual Gifting

Books

	How to Find Your Mission in Life Author: Bolles, Richard N.   Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1999. How to make the most of your unique gifts and find a vocation that is personally fulfilling in the context of God.
	Discovering and Using Your Spiritual and Personal Gifts Author: Harbaugh, Gary L.   Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1988.
	Life Keys: Discovering Who You Are, Why You're Here, and What You  Do Best   Authors: Stark, David and Jane Kise, Sandra Krebs Hirsh, Kevin Johnson.  Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1996. Three pastors help you explore how your giftedness, personality, values, and purpose provide the keys to a meaningful life.   Also see:  www.lifekeys.com and www.changingchurch.org/lifekeys/login/index.cfm
	Created and Called: Discovering Our Gifts for Abundant Living Authorf: Trumbauer, Jean Morris.   Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1998. A new, comprehensive approach to gifts-based ministry. Explore the reality of the interrelationship between God's creation in us. Discover the mission and ministry we do both as individuals and as a community of faith. Also see: http://members.aol.com/trumbauer/

Links

Online Spiritual Gifts Inventories:

All Spiritual Gift inventories are not the same.  You may need to log in to gain full access to the some of these gift inventories. Some choose to focus on certain gifts more than others and others may differ in their choice of questions.  However, through prayer and some searching you will be able to more readily identify your God-given spiritual gifts and how to use them to further His ministry in this world.

• Opening Spiritual Gifts. www.elca.org/eteam/assessment/OpenSpiritGifts.htm  
  Boese, Neal and Patricia Haller. ELCA Education and Evangelism Team.  Chicago, IL: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995. 

• Spiritual Gifts Discovery Tool.  www.cforc.com/sgifts.html 
  Ramsey, Peg.  Lord of Life Lutheran Church.  Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.  Used by permission of the Texas District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.  "In His Service" materials. 

• LifeKeys Gift Assessment. www.changingchurch.org/lifekeys/login/index.cfm   
  David Stark, Jane Kise, Sandra Krebs Hirsh, Kevin Johnson. Life Keys: Discovering Who You Are, Why You're Here, and What You Do Best.  Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1996.

• Team Ministry's Spiritual Gift Analysis. www.churchgrowth.org/cgi-cg/gifts.cgi