Help your people to know what God has gifted them to do, and to do it.

• Each person who wants help should be assigned to a coach or mentor, to deal with this, until they are active in ministry.
• List the spiritual gifts found in Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12 and Ephesians 4:11-16.
• If you are not sure of what ministries a gift enables one to do, look up the name of the gift in a concordance or Bible dictionary.

Find in Ephesians 4:11-16 guidelines for harmonizing different ministries for the edification of the church body.

Find in 1 Corinthians chapters 12 - 13 one reason why a church is called a body.

• What is the only legitimate motive for using spiritual gifts, according to chapter 13?

DES Video tapes:

Discerning the leader's identity: PT538V Studies in Leadership, sessions 2-5

Discerning the practical limitations of a leader's interpersonal relationships: PT538V Studies in Leadership, sessions 13

Train &Multiply, page 35a

For a review of major spiritual gifts: 19 Gifts of the Spirit, Leslie Flynn

For help in thinking though one's gifts: Combination Profile by Uniquely You (DISC and Spiritual Gifts Inventories)

Enable workers to assess each other's gifts and strengths.

• Inventories that people fill in themselves are "self-reports" and may describe only one's ideal self, or what they wish they were.
• Therefore, it can often be more insightful to have four or five other people also fill in a gift inventory to describe the same person. Of course, those others should have known the person as a follower of Jesus for enough time to know their strengths.