After an entire weekend dedicated to assessing, reflecting on and discussing my personality and ministry profile, I only had one rather unpleasant surprise…
When it comes to the DISC Personal Discernment Inventory, I am a high (off the chart) D, also known as a lion. My spiritual gifts include faith, evangelism, exhortation and teaching. I am a designer, planter, next stepper and presidential player. And all of those are meaningful and beneficial for me to understand my strengths, and weaknesses. But I still have a quibble.
All throughout the weekend, I waited excitedly to hear about this issue. As the weekend wore on, I figured it was just a matter of time. But then the weekend came to a close, and not one mention of this topic came up. Surely something was missed or forgotten, I reasoned. How could such a gift be overlooked?
As I looked through all our materials, I had to come to a sad conclusion. Nothing had been skipped. Nothing had been missed. This gift wasn’t mentioned…not even once. Here I thought my greatest strength would be front-and-center, and yet, no one even uttered the word.
So, if you’re at all like me, please learn from my disappointing experience. No matter how much you think this is a spiritual gift, it isn’t. No matter how you excel at this, it doesn’t matter when it comes to personality and ministry assessments. Apparently it isn’t valued by today’s society. I know it’ll be a bitter pill to swallow, but do the best you can, like I’ve had to.
Because when it comes right down to it, there is no spiritual gift of orneriness.
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