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 Spiritual Gifts List


The spiritual gifts are taken from scriptures in the bible (below)  and together when members of the body apply these individual functions the body itself functions as a whole. From this we can gather there are better and worse applications and uses of spiritual individual spiritual gifts. For us to hear and interpret the word of God accurately requires that all aspects of our spirituality are functioning well. Some have tended to leave the spiritual gifts alone believing they belonged to bygone mystical era when Jesus walked the Earth.

1. Administration
2. Apostle
3. Casting out Evil Spirits
4. Discerning of Spirits
5. Evangelism
6. Exhortation
7. Faith
8. Giving

9. Healing
10. Helps
11. Hospitality
12. Intercession
13. Interpretation of Tongues
14. Knowledge
15. Mercy
16. Leadership
17. Miracles
18. Missionary
19. Prophecy
20. Service
21. Shepherd
22. Teaching
23. Tongues

But it is quite clear we were always intended and made to do Creations work in a much more spiritually rich environment of belief than existed back then. Even among the Apostles. If you doubt this reading the Gospels should encourage you in a renewed belief of the miraculous working of the holy spirit. Through the gifts each one of us are imparted with we contribute to the body's smooth functioning. To work miracles with these mysterious powers and wonders is not only your privilege, but also in your responsibility to live a full and blessed heroic life.
The Spiritual gifts allow us to have a direct connection to the powers of a very real Creator God.

Activate your spiritual gifts as part of an interactive journey.


Wisdom and Mercy and the Spiritual gifts list
Miricles and Leading and the Spiritual gifts list
Apostles and Coaching and the Spiritual gifts list
Faith and Healing and the Spiritual gifts list
Discernment and Help and the Spiritual gifts list
Phrophesy and Ministry and the Spiritual gifts list
Giving and the Spiritual gifts list
Teaching and Knowledge and the Spiritual gifts list
Leading and Culture and the Spiritual gifts list

Spiritual Gifts - Joel Osteen

God has imparted us with specific gifts and talents. This video gives us advise on having the disciplnt to develop those gifts





After reading
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber, I decided to put my self at work in coming up with a table that shows a balance approach to using the gifts. Seeing the gifts in their complete potential as indicated on the middle path represented by the cross.


The table represents the aspects of spirituality as described in Ken Wilbers' A Brief History of Everything. The table is  used to show how everything in the universe has has four aspects that make it whole or a holons.  Everything in the universe is made up of these holons. Beginning with the tiniest mustard seed to the most complex spiritual intuition of God, all things are created of holons. Bodies have cells, concepts have symbols, and sentences have letters and the body of Christ has many parts, arms, legs,........ This is a way of measuring where there is room enough for more than the shallow outer observable material perspective, but it is a measuring system big enough for all correct perspectives and spirit, and even has room for the forgiveness wrong perspectives.
Like God, every time you bring unity to these aspects you become more like Jesus in purpose.

I have used the spiritual gifts list here to test the value of the holon as a means of measurement of spiritual gifts that may give insights into more effective applications of their wonderful traits.
This is then in not only the project of putting back the parts of the body that have been disconnected. It is also the project of restoring the understanding the gifts as wholes once again and not only a number value. The orphans and widows out there who need a real encounter with a real God won't care to much about your score on a spiritual gift test. What is important is the activation of the endless wonders of the spiritual gifts for you and your community and the transformation of people to find a newfound faith in the spiritual reality of existence. This involves activating both the objective and interpretive aspects of the spiritual gifts and bringing unity to a world of brokenness. Jesus used spiritual gifts with an unlimited faith in their reliability. Perhaps when we put a finite number on the power of a gift in ourselves we are limiting our own faith and potential.


Spiritual gifts are more than toys we can show of as Christians. The problem of our times has been we have become a little obsessed with looking at these gifts purely from an objective materialistic standpoint (see the right hand paths on the spiritual gifts graph). This problem is evident in the multitude of spiritual tests that are available on-line for us to measure our spiritual gift potential as a way of flexing our spiritual muscles to our enemies. Now it's not a bad thing to know what your spiritual gifting is, the problem is is that when we reduce spiritual gifts to a measurable units that we can observe, we are neglecting their full potential to work in our lives. We are reducing the gifts to numbers to look at. It is like the problems of looking for the truth and God through science alone and neglecting the power of the message to transform from within. Sure we may easily find evidence for the truth of Gods existence but we have missed tho opportunities for the spiritual gifts to bring healing to the depths of our inner beings. To influence our generation in a similar transformational way will require we bridge and restore the chasm between being spectator of the gifts numerical value, and an activator of the gifts.


Spiritual Gifts List


Wisdom and Mercy and the Spiritual gifts list
and the Spiritual gifts list
Apostles and Coaching and the Spiritual gifts list
Faith and Healing and the Spiritual gifts list
Discernment and Help and the Spiritual gifts list
Phrophesy and Ministry and the Spiritual gifts list
Giving and the Spiritual gifts listTeaching and Knowledge and the Spiritual gifts list
Leading and Culture and the Spiritual gifts list


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Spiritual Self Quadrants Table

Spiritual Self Awareness teaches you that God can speak to you in many ways. in the postmodern age we are aware of the dangers of seeing scientific truth as the only form of truth. The church has been victim to this as has every other field of understanding. Each building block of existence, of any truth has more than one aspect of truth to it. Your brain (UR- upper right) has thoughts that are immeasurable scientifically but are equally real. Your mind (Self consciousness UL) needs accurate interpretation. Your minds thoughts are created and have an constructed element which happens in culture (LR). If the modern discovery has been to bring liberty through the separation of Science, Art and Morals, then the the postmodern discovery has been that thoughts come out of a cultural context. The issue of the separation has collapsed the left hand paths to the imperial domination of Science. All paths are needed to restore the truth of spirituality as the foundation of all things. Each level of Spiritual Self is the evolution to a more advanced world view in this regard. Each level embraces truth in all four quadrants and evolves.   -    AQAL (all quadrants all levels) Ken Wilber A Brief History of Everything

Spiritual Self is that Restoration Project

Interior - Arts (Upper)/ Morals (Lower) Ages shift the axis from Individual (Upper) to Communal Interests and Focus (Lower) Exterior - Science
The Upper-Left (UL)

Self development. Interior life known through communication and duologue with a witness.
Depth of understanding the self more truthfully is key. For example Danial's dream interpretations.

For example transcendence of Maslow's triangle and giving oneself to the journey if living in the word completely. Having your personal story and Gods truthfulness of direction for that story, to become authentic, heart moving, inspirational and meaningful to you requires you make the truthfulness of your quest in life, and gods will for you more personally transparent.
Emerging Church Movement
Relational Personal God. Knowing Jesus intimately

Multiple perspectives interpretations of truthfulness.
How the message is received in a two way relationship. This requires that faith is in enough abundance in the individual to allow the miracle or event to take place. Activation of the full benefit of the gifts requires a faith that happens in relationship. You need to believe in the truthfulness of the gifts powers, achieved through nurturing your relationship with God. Once the gift has been activated then this requires discernment between more and less truthful interpretations of the event. Your relationship can provide answers here. 
The effect and purpose of the event or miracle can open up multiple questions and perspectives which will vary,
 dependent on the individual and their interior life.
 
This path may have issues with deceptions and become self absorbed if there are less than accurate interpretations of the message made.There is an individual concern  with the intent as well as the substance of the message. Ask yourself, "Was it a message of love and integrity"?

Interpretation of the bible is personal.
Consider the spiritual implications of personal relationship. I ask myself, "How am I am effected by this on a deeper personal relational level by my interactions with God in all forms"? 
he Middle Path:
Unifies the objective and the interpretive paths: This is the way of giving the spiritual gifts their full potential. By activating all paths at once, transformation through the spirit becomes a reality.

Solutions that contains both
<--perspectives-->
are better than single paths.(Upper) Individual and Personal Interests
Warm Colors of Spiritual Self
(example Rational Age- orange level )
SPIRITUAL SELF JOURNEY


Level one      1
Level three    3
Level five      5
Level six       7
Level eight    9




The Upper-Right (UR)
human organism and behaviors. These individual expressions are observable. Truth claims. 
Mapping observations is key.

For example the text of the bible as the infallible word of God at the end of a rational age that wants to fragment knowledge into theories and deny the existence of absolute truth. To make the spiritual Journey a rational for the 21st century.
Evangelical Church
Historic and Prepositional God. Actual Events.

The fact of Jesus on the cross.
The 10 Commandments

Strives for singular view of truth. This is the aspect of the individual that sits back and observes the miracle or the gift at work from a distance.


There is a concern for the exteriors world, and what  measurable through empirical means. By keeping a distance the gift is looked at very carefully. All aspects of the gift are measured in a search for truth in it. A proposition is put forward and it's measured.


This path alone may lead to Issues with lack of faith and reducing God to a material reality. The problem is not all changes are noticeable  in this objective reality.

While this approach to using the gifts may prevent the individual from falling into the deception of a false interpretation of the gift. The belief in this objective reality as the only reality is a deception in itself.
Some may refuse to believe in their inner life and not trust the small voice of God when they hear it.The Holy Spirit at work in us is  evident through the evidence, such as spiritual fruits.
The Middle Path:
Unifies the individual and the collective paths:

The Voice of God and the power  of the gifts -
You shape and are shaped by your spiritual community and the spiritual gifts at work. The word continues and is kept alive in this way.

<--Correct----Incorrect Interpretations of the holy spirit--->
Solutions that contains all four paths are better. This we call the middle path.

The cross and Jesus' Sacrifice became the ultimate way to find unity with God, through Christ.
The Voice of God and the power  of the gifts - evident in the word as recorded in the bible.
The Lower-Left (LL)

group expression of the interior lives, norms, customs, world views, culture

Relationship in the (We) the collective subjective self and culture. Justness for the peoples good.

eg.  A Christian culture living out and transformed by the justness and truthfulness of a personal relationship to God and each other. Knowledge constructed communally creates a culture out of which anything seems possible, and a faith to move mountains emerges.

Customs and traditions passed down in church life forge greater faith. The rational age of people standing on the shoulders of those who went before to establish a culture of aid to the needy.

Theology and Dogma.
An inter-subjective look through the lens of our cultural community
Interpretation of the community of Faith and Belief. This is the space and the community we are created and molded in.

Christianity is a cultural activity that I share with my loved ones. We all enjoy our time of sharing and communion with each other and the activation of the gifts of the holy spirit. We know about the gifts from their work in us and in our community and are encouraged by this to use them more in accordance with Gods plan. From the the great inter-textual analysis of our interpretation of the bible we have forged a unique love relationship with creation, and we know our unique purpose as a community.

We are overwhelmed by the  sacrifice that has been made on our behalf in the restoration of the spiritual gifts for our use. Our faith allows us to trust in the truthfulness of the Spiritual Gifts.

<--Correct----Incorrect Interpretations--->
(Lower) Communal And Collective Interests

Cold Colors of Spiritual Self
(example Postmodern Age - green level)

SPIRITUAL SELF JOURNEY

Level two       2
Level four      4
Level six          6
Level seven    8

When we unite the right and left aspects.The Holy Spirit, God, Christ is working and observable in us all. The Bible / Word  and the application of the gifts and their interpretation is faithfully carried out by the informed community of believers.


The Community of Faith and Belief use the gifts with wisdom.
The Lower-Right (LR)

Societal structures, institutions, organizations, and environment and expression of behavior

Faith is institutionalized in the actions of the church body.

Relationship in the (it's) the collective objective self of the many are formally established. eg. The understanding of a holistic systems map for Christianities role in society emerges. The role and nature and the REAL purpose of  the church find ways to make the holy symbols  connect with us in real and meaningful way. Instead of telling us how they should connect with us.

Observable acts like coming together for spiritual purposes. Baptisms, Corporate worship.

Focused with exteriors on a bigger system. What is the function in the overall fit of Society.


The Community of Belief- evident in the carrying out the great commission.

We have studied the word of God inside out. We have  taken it apart and put it back together that many times that we are beginning to unlock some of the secret interconnections that may have been previously missed. Now we have the Internet we can start to get some substantial truth together about the validity of the spiritual gifts and the best ways to apply them. When we put this information together into the bigger picture as an observable thing this should give us a picture as to their social function and place. Societies will be able to follow these procedures as set out in the bible without fear of misuse.

Spiritual gifts have  many correlates with other social and religious activities.





Spiritual  Colour      Beige and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour     Purple and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour        Red and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour       Blue and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour    Orange and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour      Green and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour     Yellow  and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour  Turqoise and the Spiritual gifts list
Spiritual  Colour       Coral
                   Love and the Spiritual gifts list
               Patience and the Spiritual gifts list
                   Faith and the Spiritual gifts list
              Goodness and the Spiritual gifts list
           Self-Control and the Spiritual gifts list
                      Joy and the Spiritual gifts list
               Kindness and the Spiritual gifts list
             Self Peace and the Spiritual gifts list
               Godliness and the Spiritual gifts list




1 Corinthians 14:1 [ Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues ] Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

1 Corinthians 14:12 So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.

Romans 1:11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—

1 Corinthians 1:7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.

1 Corinthians 12:1 [ Spiritual Gifts ] Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

1 Corinthians 14:1 [ Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues ] Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

1 Corinthians 14:12 So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.

1 Corinthians 14:37 If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command.



Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 2You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. 4There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. 7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. 12The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body. 21The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. 27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[d]? Do all interpret? 31But eagerly desire[e] the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

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