Knowledge: 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.]

 

Knowledge

Those with the gift of Knowledge bring Biblical truth and God-given insight to the church. Knowledge can look like receiving a word from God that is uniquely timed to and tailored for a given situation. People with the gift of knowledge may also be those who have a voracious desire to study and know God’s Word, and God may use their deep understanding of Scripture to speak a word of knowledge to a person or group. They may be the ones who can see all sides of something and are able to point out the consequences or the forgotten details that others have overlooked.

 

Scriptures that reference Knowledge or show someone exhibiting this gift:

Exodus 31, 35 (Bezalel and Oholiab); 1 Kings 7 (Huram); Luke 22 (Jesus);John 1 (Jesus); Acts 18 (Apollos); 1 Corinthians 12; 1 Corinthians 13; 1 Corinthians 14. 

 

Questions on the assessment that pertain to Knowledge:

  • Others look to me for my knowledge of Biblical concepts and/or my insight into situations.

  • I see the shades of gray in situations where others see black and white.

  • I often see important aspects of Biblical passages that others don’t recognize.

 

Some words that describe people with this gift:

  • Aware

  • Truthful

  • Perceptive

  • Student of Scripture

  • Attentive

  • Spirit-Led

 

Potential negatives to this gift:

  • May be prideful of extent of knowledge.

  • May not always know what to do with the knowledge given.

  • May make Scripture study or seeking a Word from God the focus instead of God Himself being the center.

 

Some possible ways to serve using this gift:

  • Committee member or chair

  • Sunday School teacher

  • Adult Education committee member/teacher

  • Elder/deacon

  • Bible Study Leader

  • Vacation Bible School leader/helper

  • Mentor

  • Strategic planning/vision committee

 

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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