Showing posts with label Values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Values. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

Spiritual Gifts: Chapter 7 - Survey Challenge, by Jay Quine

Your Gifts, Your Values -- Quine

The Values Based Spiritual Gift Maturity Survey

A Call to Action

Businesses and consultants, colleges and universities, marriage and family counselors all use a similar tool: personality and aptitude tests. We should do the same to discover and provide more avenues and outlets of our spiritual gifts. There should be something to measure our progress, and evaluate our maturity. The following survey is just that tool.

The Values Based Spiritual Gift Maturity Survey is a tool to help you evaluate where you are in identifying and utilizing your spiritual gifting potential. It is an instrument to bring to light those areas of maturity, and to expose your need for maturing transitions. It is deliberately written in non-Christian language. It is not designed to help you discover your gifts (for you have more than you will ever utilize!). It is designed to challenge, prod, and encourage you toward maturity in view of those gifts measured against your personal values.

The results of the Survey are stated in terms of values. The values influence our decisions and actions at every stage in life. They reflect our current understanding of our spiritual gifts. As we make stage shifts through our maturation process our spiritual gifts have opportunity to blossom and flourish. The values are related to the descriptions and definitions of spiritual gifts explained in this booklet. Although not determinative, we include a chart to only help you correlate your values to your spiritual gifts. Accompanying the output of your results are discernment or discipleship questions. These questions are designed to probe into your gifts and values to look at what lies behind your current level of Christian maturity. They are for you to reflect upon your own journey and progress in Christ. We hope you take the survey, and thoughtfully reflect upon its output.


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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Spiritual Gifts: Chapter 3.1 -- Spiritual Bailments, by Jay Quine



In law there is a curious thing called a “bailment.” It is when property is delivered to another, who is to utilize or keep the property for the good of the owner until the time of trust is complete.[1] For a bailment to occur two requirements must be met:

1) knowledge of the object

2) actual change of possession

For example, let’s say you own a beauty shop. A customer walks in and hangs her coat. You see her hang her coat; in fact you have to wait for her to finish hanging her coat as you invite her to have her hair washed. Hanging it on the hanger (which your shop provided) she says, “Now I’m trusting you with this, dearee.”

But, you’re not the only one who saw her hang her coat. So did another customer, who decided to help herself to it on her way out. Under the law of bailment, you, the shop owner are liable for the stolen coat because there was 1) knowledge of the object, and 2) it was in your shop and on your hanger—you took possession.

So it is with spiritual gifts. We could think of them as spiritual bailments rather than spiritual gifts in that they are God’s which He entrusts to us for a time. There is knowledge of them, for every believer has a spiritual gift—“to each one there is given a manifestation of the spirit” (1Cor 12:7). So we know we all have one. There is knowledge of the object.

There is also a change of possession—God gives them to us, and through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we know we possess them. Like a bailment, we are responsible for what we do with the spiritual gifts the Lord has entrusted to us.


[1]Black’s Law Dictionary, Eighth Edition, edited by Bryan A. Garner, 2006.


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