Spiritual Gifts
Review the gifts, revisit the teaching if needed, and complete the assessment to help identify your top 3 areas of gifting.
Understanding Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual gifts are special attributes given by the Holy Spirit to build up the body of Christ. They are given for the common good and are meant to help the church reflect the love, truth, and power of God.
At Prairie Creek, we have been exploring spiritual gifts through Sunday worship and Wednesday Gifts Lab. This page is designed to give you a brief review of the gifts, provide resources if you want to revisit the teaching, and help you complete the assessment.
Review of the Gifts
Use the sections below to review the gift categories and their definitions before completing the assessment.
Love Gifts
Manifest the love of God in practical ways.
Administration / Guidance
A capacity to manage details in a way that supports others and helps ministry move forward.
Helps / Serving
A readiness to notice practical needs and step in to serve in tangible ways.
Giving
A desire to give generously and joyfully to meet the needs of others without seeking recognition.
Mercy
A deep compassion for people who are hurting, struggling, or in distress, with a strong desire to come alongside them.
Celibacy / Chastity
A special grace to remain single with contentment and devotion to God’s purposes without undue struggle.
Martyrdom
A God-given strength to endure suffering, even to the point of death, in a way that brings glory to Christ.
Word Gifts
Clarify the nature, actions, and purposes of God.
Teaching
An ability to explain and apply biblical truth in a way that helps others understand and obey God’s Word.
Exhortation / Encouragement
A gift for urging others toward growth, faithfulness, comfort, or action through timely biblical encouragement.
Apostleship
An ability to help start new ministries, extend the reach of the church, and provide leadership across ministry settings.
Leadership
A God-given ability to guide people toward a shared purpose in a way that builds unity, direction, and willing cooperation.
Shepherding / Pastoring
A capacity to care for the ongoing spiritual health, growth, and discipleship of a person or group.
Evangelism
A special ability to clearly share the gospel with people who do not yet know Christ and help them take steps toward faith.
Power Gifts
Demonstrate the power, presence, and reality of God.
Faith
A Spirit-given confidence to see what God wants to do and trust Him with unusual steadiness to bring it to pass.
Discernment of Spirits
A God-given sensitivity to recognize whether something is from God, from human influence, or from an evil source.
Prophecy
A capacity to share a timely word that strengthens, encourages, comforts, or brings conviction in line with God’s truth.
Healing
A divine enablement through which God brings restoration and wholeness to others.
Words of Knowledge
God-given insight about a person or situation that could not be known naturally and is meant to help, heal, or bring clarity.
Words of Wisdom
A God-given word of direction or insight that brings clarity for a specific situation or next step.
Intercession
A special ability to pray faithfully and persistently over time and to see specific answers to prayer.
Miracles
A God-given enablement through which His power is displayed in ways that go beyond the ordinary course of nature.
Tongues
A Spirit-given ability to speak, pray, or worship in a language unknown to the speaker.
Interpretation of Tongues
An ability to communicate the meaning of a message given in tongues so that the church is strengthened and encouraged.
Resources for Review
If you would like to revisit the teaching before completing the assessment, use the resources below.
John Thompson’s video teachings on spiritual gifts have been a valuable resource for us as a church.
Because Thompson is a Reformed pastor and Prairie Creek is part of the Global Methodist Church, there are places where our theological views differ. One such distinction is how we understand salvation and being filled with the Holy Spirit. As Methodists, we believe these may happen simultaneously, but the filling of the Holy Spirit may also take place later in a believer’s life.
We offer these videos as a helpful resource alongside Scripture, prayer, and the teaching of the church.
Complete the Assessment
As you review these gifts, prayerfully consider which 3 seem most evident in your life at this time. Then complete the assessment to share your responses with Prairie Creek.