Administration: Spiritual Gifts Definitions, Scriptures, and Ways to Serve

[If you have not already done so, please take a moment now to take this free spiritual gifts assessment. Once you have your results, come back to this and the corresponding 22 blog posts for a detailed description of each of the gifts, focusing on your own as well as becoming familiar with all of them so you can spot and call them out in others.]

 

Administration

Those with gifts of Administration bring efficiency and order to the church and to other organizations. These are usually the planners, goal-setters, or managers. They look for new ways to help groups of people and necessary tasks run more effectively. 

 

Scriptures that reference Administration or show someone exhibiting this gift: Acts 6 (Apostles and deacons); Genesis (Joseph); Exodus 18 (Jethro); 1 Kings 18 (Obadiah); Daniel 2 (Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego);Daniel 6 (Daniel); 1 Corinthians 12.

 

Questions on the gifts assessment that pertain to Administration:

  • I am good at taking care of details that other people might neglect.

  • Others look to me for my organizational skills.

  • If somebody has a good vision, I can do the work of putting it into practice.

 

Some words that describe people with this gift:

  • Organizer

  • Planner

  • Strategizer

  • Developer

  • Goal-oriented

  • Efficient

 

Potential negatives to this gift:

  • Getting lost in the details and failing to remember the vision/mission/purpose.

  • Pride in organizational skills instead of giving credit to God for the giftedness you exhibit.

  • Relying on programs and projects at the expense of people and needs.

 

Some possible ways to serve using this gift:

  • Committee member or chair

  • Facilitator

  • Strategic planner

  • Conduct and analyze surveys

  • Event organizer

  • Administrative Assistant/Executive Assistant

  • Elder

  • Wedding coordinator

  • Strategic/master plan committee

  • Anywhere!

 

Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with hundreds of faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for four decades. She currently serves as Catalyst for Equipping and overseer of Local Missions at her church.

 

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