For the past few years, I’ve seen that people don’t know how to hear one another, nor can they speak to each other. We discount those who aren’t easy to be around and I believe this has created a great deal of loneliness in the world. Perhaps this is because we don’t make friends easily in our production/efficiency driven society.

I…[Read more]

This was helpful, especially illustrating the difference between fruits of the spirit and spiritual gifts. I’m planning on asking a few people what they think my spiritual gifts are and seeing how it matches up with the results of the test, as well as finding other ways to test them. Emphasizing the mutual responsibilities we have was…[Read more]

Gifts:

1. Nurturing Leadership-26
2. Mercy-26
3. Helping-20
4. Servanthood-19
5. Shepherding-19

I kind of expecting this to be a bit different, though it is not a big surprise. I thought teaching the faith and discernment might be on there, but alas. Perhaps they will develop in time. I suspect our gift strength may fluctuate…[Read more]

It was a bit difficult. I felt as though I’d forgotten things I used to be proud of the fact that I was a part of them. But, didn’t have too much trouble coming up with a few things that I felt like I’d done well, learned a lot from and/or enjoyed how I’d grown through them.

It took a bit of guestimating how I’d contributed to…[Read more]

Admired People in no particular order
My Grandfather, Tripp Graziano, The Iron giant (from the movie, The Iron Giant), Jean Vanier, Henri Nouwen

Common themes were thoughtfulness, gentleness, kindness, the ability to listen, compassion, and being good friends of others.

-Tom

I found the test to be a wee bit frustrating. It seemed too limited. I’ve long thought the gifts described by Paul were meant to be interpreted as generalizations. (Also, I think tests for spiritual gifts in general are not super useful. It may be more helpful if I had several friends take the test in reference to me as my own…[Read more]