An Invitation to Share Your Stories
Will you share your story? Will you link your identity and call with others who are engaged in this process of discovery, development, and deployment?
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Giving
Discovering and naming my gift helped me understand that my passion for missions was based on a spiritual gift, that of giving.
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Living Our Spiritual Gifts: The Challenge of Carl
Once in a great while God grants us the opportunity not only to hear the gospel, but also to meet it incarnate. For me, one such experience materialized in the form of a huge, lovable, mountain of a man named Carl.
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Being Who I Am
The Gifts Discovery process lifted up and clarified for me what my spiritual gifts are, their nature, and how to use them effectively.
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Barbara's Story
Spiritual gifts discovery gave me a name for my experience — wisdom — and a means for understanding and employing its power.
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What Gifts?
Over the years, my thinking around spiritual giftedness has evolved in one essential and significant way: Almost all the early spiritual gifts materials held the institutional church at the center. In other words, we are gifted to support the church. What I have come to realize is that we are not gifted because of the church; rather, the church exists because we are gifted.
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Afterglow
I am still in the afterglow of the Spiritual Gifts Inventory workshops Barbara Miller led at the Northeast Jurisdictional convocation of the Fellowship of United Methodists in and Worship Arts at Lycoming College in July 2000.
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