Craftsmanship 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.]

 

Craftsmanship

People with the Craftsmanship gift are uniquely skilled at working with raw materials (wood, cloth, clay, paints, glass, etc.), helping to create things that are used for ministry or that help meet tangible needs. They might be found fixing, remodeling, and sprucing up buildings, and or creating and stitching glorious quilts, pillows, wall-hangings—with the ultimate goal of honoring God and benefitting others. They view the use of their gift as a way of serving others in practical, hands-on ways.

 

Scriptures that reference Craftsmanship or show someone exhibiting this gift:

Exodus 31, Exodus 35 (Bezalel and Oholiab); 1 Kings 7 (Huram); 1 Chronicles 28.

 

Questions on the assessment that pertain to Craftsmanship:

  • I enjoy working with my hands to create things that facilitate my own or another’s ministry.

  • I am skilled at creating useful items from materials like glass, metal, wood, paper, etc.

  • Others depend on me to make or fix things.

 

Some words that describe people with this gift:

  • Creative

  • Skilled

  • Designer

  • Practical

  • Resourceful

  • Capable

 

Potential negatives to this gift:

  • May fail to see the connection between this gift and God’s purposes.

  • May fail to recognize that their unique or exceptional skill at something practical is a spiritual gift and not simply a talent.

 

Some possible ways to serve using this gift:

  • Builder/repairer of church facility

  • Creator of banners, signs

  • Landscaper/gardener

  • Work Crew/renovator

  • Artist/painter

  • Crafter

  • Drama set builder/coordinator

  • Construction/installation

  • Interior design

  • Architect

  • Finish carpenter

  • Quilter/seamstress/tailor

 

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 at her church.

 

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