Spiritual Gifts Ministry

Discovering God’s Vision for Your Life – You and Your Spiritual Gifts

Your Spiritual Growth and Calling

At Hertford UMC we are committed to helping you grow spiritually. One way we do this is by helping you discover your spiritual gifts and find God’s calling for your life.

What are Spiritual Gifts?

Spiritual gifts are God’s empowerment of God’s people for God’s work. More specifically defined as spiritual gifts are unique endowments from the Holy Spirit, generously shared with Christians in community for building up the body of Christ in practical ways.

Every Chrisitan has at least one unique spiritual gift waiting to be discovered. God has designed the church so that people can find deep meaning and experience powerful joy when they use their gifts to minister to others.

What is God’s Will for your life? Have you ever wondered what God wants you to do with your life? By learning about your spiritual gifts, you can recognize your deepest passions and wield the strongest capabilities given to you by the Holy Spirit.

One Body, Many Parts The church is Christ’s body. Just as a human body functions most effectively when all its “members” are functioning, so the church needs each Christian to know and use his or her gifts. In order for our congregation to be effective, we need to affirm each person’s spiritual gifts and encourage each other to use them.

A Complete Course

Our congregation offeres an eight-hour course, Discovering God’s Vision for Your Life: You and Your Spiritual Gifts. The eight modules that are presented are:

  • What Does God Want Me to Do With My Life?
  • Who AM I?
  • What Makes Me Unique?
  • Unwrapping Your Gifts Package
  • Spiritual Gifts in the Spotlight
  • Love Personified
  • Your Calling
  • God’s Vision and Your Vision Coming Together

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed . . There are varieties of gifts activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.” 1 Corinthians 12:1, 4, 11

Why Discover Your Spiritual Gifts?

You will receive many benefits from learning about your spiritual gifts, such as: deepened spirituality, self-understanding, freedom from “shoulds” and “oughts”, self-acceptance, congruence, decisiveness, self-esteem, joy, fulfillment, a sense of purpose and direction, and a renewed gratitude to Gud. These benefits not only come to you individually, but also to the Church community through you, and from the congregation to the world.

God’s grace is always multiple and overflowing!