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. . . Where and how is God calling you? Is your church helping you to discover and answer God’s call?

. . . How do we maximize our leadership potential without driving one another crazy?

. . . How can we make our church more open, inclusive, and able to meet the ministry needs of a constantly changing culture?

Equipped for Every Good Work provides a way to explore these questions. The four tools — Spiritual Gifts Inventory, Leadership/Interaction Styles, Spirituality Web, and Task Type Preferences — help individuals and groups discover and understand the gifts, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that influence their ability to live as Christian disciples and to lead within a community of faith.

If you have purchased the book Equipped for Every Good Work, this is the place to get handouts and slides (Downloads), to get answers to questions (FAQs), and to find Exercises, Articles, and Resources to take the process beyond information gathering into a true journey of transformation toward gifts-based ministry.

This website is intended to be a companion resource to the book, Equipped for Every Good Work. If you are here out of curiosity or have used a different tool for spiritual gifts discovery, you will find helpful and interesting information on these pages. Gifts discovery is not dependent on one tool or one process. While we believe we have provided a process of scripturally based integrity, the tool is not as important as the dialogue inspired, the connections made, the power of grace released when we focus our attention on the work of the Holy Spirit within us.

We hope that the book Equipped for Every Good Work and this website will foster connections among Christian stewards — connections founded in the common experience of the Holy Spirit, the ongoing, living presence of God in Christ. May we be filled with light and heat, opened to the power of grace and love as we build gifts-based ministry. This is ministry that knows no institutional walls. It grows out of clearer understanding of who and whose we are as the body of Christ, ready to respond to the needs of a hungry and hurting world — “equipped for every good work.”

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