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Section 09: SHEPHERDING THE FLOCK, Advanced Level 3a

09 3a: Start special ministries as unique opportunities arise

List ministries that correspond to spiritual gifts mentioned in the Bible (see below).

Add to this list other ministries that the needs and opportunities of your church require.
Then prayerfully decide, with your coworkers which, if any, should be eliminated or reinforced.

Make a list of the spiritual gifts mentioned in the New Testament, (Romans 12:6-8; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4:11-12; Matthew 19:10-12) and add by them the ministries that correspond. Some ministries are supported by several gifts.

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T&M Student Activity Guide page 36a

Help every member identify their spiritual gifts.

Perhaps the best way to do that is in small groups where the members have seen each other ministering for several months.
Make up an inventory of gifts and their major characteristics that group members can fill in for each other.
There are several published inventories. Two can be found in training manuals:

Network by Bugbee, Cousins & Hybels, Zondervan Press, 1994, ISBN 0-310-41231-5. The authors present 23 gifts in an American model of ministry from one's passion, giftedness and personal style, accompanied by counsel from a trained church staff member.

Discover Your Gifts by Christian Schwartz, various languages and publishers, 1988 and updates. A more cognitive, European model that presupposes some thirty spiritual gifts.

For help: Research

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