STUDY QUIZ KING JAMES VERSION

Definitions of Spiritual Gifts

Serving

• Helps (ministry): The desire and ability to recognize the day-to-day needs of others and to meet those needs personally.

• Mercy: The ability to feel sympathy and compassion for and to meet the needs of persons who suffer distress      and crisis from physical, mental, or emotional problems.

• Giving: The special ability and desire to contribute material resources to others and the Lord’s work with liberality and cheerfulness.

• Healing: The God-given ability to help      others regain physical, mental, or spiritual health through the direct  
• action of God.

Teaching

• Wisdom: The ability to gain insight   into the practical application of God’s truths to specific situations.

• Knowledge: The ability to discover, understand, clarify, and communicate information that relates to the life, growth, and well-being of the church.

• Teaching: The special ability to study      God’s Word and to communicate spiritual truths in such a way that they are relevant to the church's health and ministry and in such a way that others will learn.

• Leadership: The special ability to set      goals in accordance with God’s will, to communicate those goals to others, and to motivate others to work together to achieve those goals.

Worshiping

• Prophecy: The special ability to receive a message from God and then to communicate that message to others through a divinely anointed utterance.

• Spiritual discernment: The ability to know which actions and teachings that are claimed to be of God are actually of God rather than human or satanic.

• Exhortation: The special ability to comfort and encourage others as well as to motivate others to right actions.

• Shepherding: The ability to build up, equip, and guide Christians in spiritual growth and maturity.

Witnessing

• Faith: The special ability to affirm God’s power to intervene in the world today and to be a part of this intervention through prayer and the Holy Spirit’s power.

• Evangelism: The ability to comprehend the lost condition of people in the world and to present Christ effectively so that persons will accept salvation in Jesus.

• Apostleship: The ability to share God’s      message of reconciliation; to start new Bible study groups and churches; or to cross cultural, language, or racial barriers to present the gospel.

• Miracles: The special ability to serve as a human intermediary through whom God works to bring about events that cannot be explained by natural law.