When I was serving as an intern at my home church, I spent countless hours with spiritual gift inventories spread out across my parent's living room floor and my computer on my lap. My pastor had tasked me with coming up with a way of recording what people's spiritual gifts are for him and the lay leadership committee and then making suggestions for folks as to what a good use of their gifts inside and outside of the church may be.
The task was daunting.
But it was also fruitful. It was fruitful not just connecting needs with gifts, but it also helped people start to realize that their spiritual gifts aren't private. What I mean by that, is for years, if folks took spiritual gift inventories or recognized what their spiritual gift was they kept it to themselves. They had the knowledge of their gift and that was enough. But gifts are meant to be use. We shouldn't be the only one to know as individuals what our gifts are. Others in the church should know as well. Because we use our gifts together to glorify God. And in order to do that we need to know what gifts others have.
We are the body of Christ together. We need each other. We need to know each other and build each other up in our gifts. For we are better together.
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