Discover how God has uniquely equipped you to serve.
This is not a test, so there are no wrong answers. The survey consists of 80 statements — some reflect concrete actions, others are descriptive traits, and still others are statements of belief.
Based on your responses to all 80 statements
Spiritual gifts are not rankings of spiritual maturity. They reveal ways God may have uniquely equipped a person to serve, build, communicate, lead and strengthen the Body of Christ. The purpose isn't to become every gift. It is to recognize what God has entrusted to you, mature it, and understand where you need partnership, development and dependence on the Holy Spirit.
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.” — 1 Peter 4:10
Teaching is the ability to take truth and make it understandable, transferable and applicable to another person. In leadership, a teacher doesn't simply communicate information—they create understanding.
A strong teacher can build frameworks, explain why something matters, recognize when someone isn't understanding, and communicate the same truth through different approaches. Your assessment specifically connects this gift with the desire and ability to teach, adapting to different learning styles and explaining Scripture so others understand.
For a trainer, the question isn't simply, “Can you speak?” It is: “Are people seeing differently because you taught?”
“And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” — 2 Timothy 2:2
Learn to teach the person in front of you, rather than merely delivering what you prepared.
Wisdom is the capacity to take truth and know how to apply it to what is actually happening.
This is foundational for transformational leadership because a trainer cannot simply follow a script. The trainer is continually discerning: what does this person need? What does this room need? What truth applies here? Is this the moment to speak, question, wait, confront, encourage or pray?
The assessment connects Wisdom with applying God's truth to specific situations, analyzing situations correctly, assisting others with difficult decisions and seeing spiritual solutions to problems.
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach.” — James 1:5
Teaching knows the principle. Wisdom recognizes what the moment requires.
Discernment is the capacity to recognize what may be happening beneath what is immediately visible.
In a training environment, this can be extraordinarily valuable. A discerning trainer learns to notice inconsistencies, motivations, patterns, shifts and what isn't being said. The assessment connects Discernment with recognizing genuineness and honesty and sensing whether someone is operating in accordance with God's leadership.
But discernment must always be paired with humility. Discernment is not assumption.
A mature trainer learns: Observe → Get Curious → Test → Ask → Discern → Respond.
“But test everything; hold fast what is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21
“The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.” — Proverbs 20:5
Never call your interpretation revelation simply because you feel strongly about it.
Faith enables a leader to hold possibility when circumstances have not yet caught up with what God can do.
This assessment describes Faith through trusting God in difficult circumstances, yielding to His will, trusting when things look dark and believing that seemingly impossible situations can change for God's glory.
In a training room, faith can allow a leader to believe for someone's transformation before that person can see it for themselves.
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” — 2 Corinthians 5:7
“For nothing will be impossible with God.” — Luke 1:37
Hold faith for possibility without becoming attached to controlling the outcome. Faith trusts God; control tries to become God.
Exhortation is the capacity to call someone forward through encouragement, truth and invitation.
The assessment associates this gift with naturally encouraging others, recognizing people who need encouragement, providing comfort and counseling, and encouraging others toward Christlike living.
In leadership training, exhortation isn't hype. It says:
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11
Mature exhortation combines truth and love. Encouragement without truth can enable; truth without love can wound.
Apostleship carries an orientation toward going, building, pioneering and expanding beyond what already exists.
The assessment connects Apostleship with establishing new churches and carrying the gospel into other nations, cultures, backgrounds and belief systems.
Through a leadership lens, this gift asks: Can what God has entrusted to me multiply beyond me?
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…” — Matthew 28:19
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.” — 1 Corinthians 3:6
Don't merely build followers. Develop leaders who can develop leaders.
Giving reflects generosity, stewardship and the willingness to release resources toward what God is doing.
The assessment connects Giving with cheerful generosity and the recognition that ultimately God owns what we steward.
In leadership, generosity extends beyond money. Generous leaders give time, opportunity, encouragement, credit, resources, access and responsibility. They don't need to possess everything they helped build.
“God loves a cheerful giver.” — 2 Corinthians 9:7
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” — Acts 20:35
I don't need to possess what God has asked me to steward.
Knowledge reflects an appetite for truth, study, investigation and understanding.
The assessment connects Knowledge with studying, digging into facts, discovering truths in Scripture, organizing information into meaningful relationships and knowing how to find information.
“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” — Proverbs 18:15
Study deeply, but don't mistake information for transformation. What you know must eventually affect how you live and lead.
Within this assessment, Prophecy reflects a capacity to receive and communicate something believed to be from God, including biblical insight that compels someone to speak.
For a trainer, this requires tremendous stewardship. Spiritual conviction must remain grounded in Scripture, humility, love and accountability.
“Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.” — 1 Corinthians 14:29
“The one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.” — 1 Corinthians 14:3
The stronger your conviction, the greater your responsibility to remain humble enough for it to be weighed.
Service recognizes practical needs and is willing to move from observation into action.
The assessment describes this gift through meeting physical and practical needs rather than merely talking about them, being sensitive to people's needs and enjoying doing things that help others.
This matters tremendously in leadership because Kingdom leadership is never merely about the platform.
“Whoever would be great among you must be your servant.” — Matthew 20:26
Never become so important that something becomes beneath you.
Leadership is the capacity to see where people need to go and help move them there.
The assessment connects Leadership with making critical decisions, adapting guidance to people's maturity, communicating vision, determining where a group should go and influencing others toward their God-given potential.
Biblical leadership isn't domination. It is stewardship.
“If it is leadership, let him govern diligently.” — Romans 12:8
“Whoever would be first among you must be servant of all.” — Mark 10:44
Leadership isn't getting people to follow you. It is stewarding influence so people can increasingly follow Christ.
Shepherding is the capacity and desire to care for, guide and develop people over time.
The assessment associates Shepherding with helping others grow in faith, discipling Christians, giving spiritual direction and helping people become more effective in ministry.
“Shepherd the flock of God that is among you… not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.” — 1 Peter 5:2–3
You are not called to become everyone's shepherd. Learn when someone needs a trainer, a coach, a pastor, wise counsel—or simply space to seek God themselves.
Administration is the capacity to take vision and create the structure necessary for its execution.
The assessment connects this gift with organizing people and resources, delegating meaningful work, helping groups function effectively, planning and establishing clear steps of action.
“But all things should be done decently and in order.” — 1 Corinthians 14:40
Vision without execution remains an idea. Learn to create enough structure that what God has entrusted to the team can actually be carried.
Evangelism is a burden and capacity to communicate the gospel clearly to those who do not yet know Christ.
The assessment specifically associates this gift with presenting salvation, taking initiative to help others come to Christ and feeling comfortable sharing Christ with nonbelievers.
“Do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” — 2 Timothy 4:5
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation…” — Romans 1:16
Never become so focused on developing believers that you lose sight of those who don't yet know Jesus.
Mercy is the capacity to recognize suffering and move toward people with compassion.
The assessment connects Mercy with sensitivity to people's hurts and emotions, being drawn toward hurting people and understanding those experiencing distress.
For a transformational trainer, mercy does not mean rescuing people from discomfort or avoiding truth. Mercy helps you discern how truth needs to be delivered so it can actually be received.
“Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.” — Romans 12:15
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted…” — Ephesians 4:32
Learn the difference between compassion and rescue. Compassion walks with someone through truth. Rescue attempts to remove every uncomfortable consequence of truth.
Hospitality is the capacity to create an environment in which people experience welcome, belonging and room to enter.
The assessment associates Hospitality with welcoming guests and strangers and helping newcomers feel comfortable.
Through a training lens, this becomes much bigger than opening your home. Can you create a room where someone feels safe enough to tell the truth?
“Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.” — 1 Peter 4:9
“Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.” — Romans 15:7
Psychological and relational safety do not mean the absence of challenge. They create an environment where challenge can be encountered without humiliation.
When looking at these gifts together through the lens of transformational leadership, a particularly meaningful combination emerges: Teaching + Wisdom + Discernment + Faith.
Teaching says: I can communicate truth.
Wisdom says: I can recognize how truth applies here.
Discernment says: I can perceive that there may be more happening than what is immediately visible.
Faith says: I can continue believing God for what I cannot yet see.
Put together and matured, this can become:
But Scripture gives us the governing principle over every single gift:
“If I… understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” — 1 Corinthians 13:2
A person can be extraordinarily gifted and still not yet be ready to steward a room.
And Jesus gives us the standard for Kingdom leadership:
“Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required.” — Luke 12:48
The question for a Trainer-in-Training therefore isn't simply:
“What are my gifts?”
It becomes:
“How cleanly, humbly, responsibly and lovingly can I steward what God has entrusted to me for the sake of the people in the room?”