I’m not sure I completely agree with using this sort of things…
How reliable are they in identifying your spiritual gifts?
Aren’t these somewhat spammy? I wouldn’t dare to click on one.
I checked them first… it is a serious question. If you don’t want to click, you don’t have to… but the question remains… what are your spiritual gift(s)?
I have a couple, but I think my most unusual is playing the tambourine.
Hear me out.
I play with the Worship Team, but I never rehearse with them. I just play; and I don’t play just keeping a beat. I had one gentleman tell me that I play it “like a real instrument”. The most unusual thing is that I will play with the Worship Team a brand-new song that I’d never heard before, and STILL play exactly what our Music Pastor likes. That is definitely a God thing.
What spiritual gift would that be exactly?
The issue with quizzes, online or in booklet form (once very popular as church study group material) is bias. You may want a gift so badly, you may manipulate answers to get the result you want. These test are impossible to get an accurate answer.
I having a talent for teaching, but I do not claim that is a spiritual gift.
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@Historyprof
You may want a gift so badly, you may manipulate answers to get the result you want.
My pastor says that a lot.
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I took the 2nd survey. My top 3 gifts ended up being
- Evangelism -16
- Teaching - 16
- Exhortation - 13
Administration was also a 13. Prophecy was 12, Shepherding was 10, Serving was 9, Giving was 7, and Mercy, I embarrassed to admit, was 0.
That last survey didn’t feel right; for some reason it gave me the creeps. And that’s coming from a guy who tries his hardest to not live by his feelings/emotions. Is there anybody else out there who felt weird about the last survey on the list? I’d hate to be the only one.
It wanted name & email. That mean junk mail trying to sell stuff.
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Yeah, there’s that too. But there’s also something about the questions that felt weird. They didn’t sound weird, they just felt weird. I don’t trust it. I don’t think I have the gift of discernment; I always have to ask God to open my eyes. And I haven’t done that yet.
My pastor said that maybe instead of the individual taking the survey, the friends, family members, coworkers, etc. should fill in the survey for you. I bet that’d be more accurate. 
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Let’s talk about those “spiritual gift assessments” making the rounds in small groups like sanctified BuzzFeed quizzes. Look, if the Holy Spirit can be mapped out in 15 questions and a Likert scale, we’re not talking about the Spirit of God… we’re talking about church-approved horoscope vibes.
The Word says gifts are given “as He wills” (1 Corinthians 12:11), not “as your personality test results suggest.” Spiritual gifts aren’t revealed by algorithms or preferences. They show up in obedience, confirmed in the furnace of faith, not the froth of self-discovery. You know how you find your gift? You serve. You get in the trenches. You step into needs. The Spirit shows up when you stop looking inward and start pouring outward.
The early Church didn’t need tests. They needed power. They needed boldness. And they needed the Spirit to move through whoever was yielded… not whoever scored high in “encouragement” on a worksheet.
So yeah, you might learn something from a test. But if you’re leaning on it like Scripture, you’re already off course. Want to know your spiritual gift? Ask the Body. Ask the Word. Ask the Spirit. And then get busy building the Church, not curating your spiritual résumé.
—Sincere Seeker. Scripturally savage. Here for the Truth.
Spirit filled friends
If what we are calling “Spiritual Gifts” are seen as “Spirit Enablement” for God’s Glory, let’s consider what we might expect that “gifting” to look like.
Even a casual examination of scripture will reveal an unexpected phenomenon regarding Spirit enablement. When The Spirit of God enables someone to act in obedience, it is very often, if not always, something in which they are unskilled, or poorly adept; they are enabled in something that they would otherwise be unable to perform, or would perform quite poorly. From leather to leather, the manifold stories of God enabling His chosen vessels in the area of their personal weakness bears this out. I’m sure some examples are coming to mind right now. Why would God enable the disabled? “That no flesh should glory in His presence.”
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God–and righteousness and sanctification and redemption-- that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Therefore, I wouldn’t expect a “strengths assessment” or a “personality appraisal” to reveal very much about Spirit enablement, except, it may suggest your areas of weakness as those which God may use, for His glory.
KP
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From google
The gift of discerning of spirits, as mentioned in the Bible, is a spiritual gift that enables believers to discern the source of spiritual manifestations, whether they are from God, humans, or demonic forces. It’s a supernatural ability to distinguish between spirits, particularly in the context of prophecy and spiritual encounters.
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I actually have some good friends who are diving into this! I wrote an awesome article on it- you guys should go let me know what you think. Spiritual gifts are a helpful way to understand your role in God’s plan for you. DiscipleIQ is trying to create a software to use to help church’s and communities discover the spiritual gifts of their congregation and then use these gifts to bring up the community. You can take a free spiritual gifts test discipleIQ !
@Tjjohns12 (Tyson)
All of the “articles” on discipleIQ are written by Michael Meiser, except one. None written by anyone named “Tyson”
I looked over the site, and took the “personality assesment”.
I don’t know if you read the other posts in this topic, but you may have read that my understanding of Spiritual gifts have very little, to nothing to do with “personality”, or that “gentle tug” mentioned in Michael Meiser’s Blog post. I believe this is what we consistently notice in the Bible; that God empowers someone Spiritually in ways that they are normally NOT inclined to go, specifically, “so no flesh glories” in their ability.
I’m happy to discuss this further, or provide specific Biblical examples, but I think they should be pretty evident.
Peace
KP
I can discern the thoughts and intent of my own heart.