In this companion workbook to What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts, What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts, you won’t encounter any of the "spiritual gift inventories" that have been popular among Christians in recent years. Nor will you find exercises or methods to help you identify once and for all the "gifts" that you can assume to be your own for the rest of your life. Instead, what you’ll find is: careful teaching, reflective questions, and stimulating exercises to help you discover essential truths about spiritual gifts and to help you understand life in the Spirit in a fresh, biblical way—so you can better fulfill God’s dynamic calling upon your life.
What Exactly Have You Been Given? What Exactly Have You Been Given?
Surprises are in the making when you explore biblically what spiritual gifts really are, how they fit with your natural strengths and talents, and how they match your calling and purpose in God.
In a seven-week format, the Blackabys focus on key concepts drawn from their book What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts?What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts? Designed for personal Bible study or for use in small groups, each lesson includes questions and exercises to promote discussion. You’ll also find a helpful Leader’s Guide in the back.
This book will help restore the Holy Spirit to the center of your understanding and practice of spiritual gifts, and set you free to serve God as never before.
Story Behind the BookStory Behind the Book
In an effort to help the readers of What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts? What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts? Henry and Mel Blackaby created an easy-to-use guide that will change the way many people view spiritual gifts. They’ll learn how the Holy Spirit Himself is the gift.
Henry Blackaby is a minister and author of the popular Bible study "Experiencing God." Born in British Columbia, Dr. Blackaby has devoted his lifetime to ministry. He has served as a music director, education director, and pastor in churches in California and Canada, as well as president of Canadian Baptist Theological College for seven years and president of the Canadian Southern Baptist Conference. He has provided leadership to thousands of pastors and laymen across North America and has spoken to missionaries and other groups in over ninety countries of the world.
Dr. Blackaby also teaches a monthly Bible study called God in the Workplace where he focuses on helping people know how to practically walk in a real and personal relationship with God in their work place.
Born in British Columbia, Dr. Henry T. Blackaby has devoted his lifetime to ministry. He has served as a music director, education director, and pastor in churches in California and Canada, as well as president of Canadian Baptist Theological College for seven years and president of the Canadian Southern Baptist Conference. He has provided leadership to thousands of pastors and laymen across North America and has spoken to missionaries and other groups in over ninety countries of the world.
Blackaby studied English and history at the University of British Columbia as an undergraduate and earned his B.D. and Th.M. from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees.
In 1970, Dr. Blackaby followed God's call to pastor a tiny church in Saskatoon, Canada. Not only did Faith Baptist Church grow to many times its original membership, but it led to the founding of thirty-eight new churches and became a center for pastoral training.
Dr. Blackaby went on to serve on staff at the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through the Home Mission Board, he led revival and spiritual awakening in the life of the convention. He also served as special assistant to the presidents of the International Mission Board and LifeWay Christian Resources. Although he is now officially retired, Dr. Blackaby continues to provide consultative leadership in the life of the Christian community.
Blackaby has published an array of spiritually influential messages in his lifetime, most notably Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God (1990), which has sold 4 million copies. His long-range goal is to encourage revival and spiritual awakening in the United States, Canada, and across the world through speaking, praying, enlisting, writing and mentoring.
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