Spiritual Gifts Assessment Calculator
Rate yourself 0-10 in seven spiritual gift areas (teaching, serving, leadership, mercy, giving, exhortation, administration) to discover your gift profile and diversity.
Inputs
Results
Total score (out of 70)
35
Gift diversity index
100
How to Use This Calculator
- Rate yourself from 1-10 on each of the seven spiritual gifts: Teaching, Serving, Leadership, Mercy/Compassion, Giving, Exhortation, and Administration.
- Review the Total Score and Overall Engagement %.
- Check the Gift Diversity Index and Primary Gift Strength % to identify your strongest gift.
- Review individual gift scores to discover areas to develop or share with a spiritual director.
- Use the results to find ministry roles that align with your top two or three gifts.
How the result changes with Teaching
| Teaching | Total score (out of 70) | Gift diversity index |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | 65 |
| 3.5 | 34 | 91.3 |
| 6.5 | 37 | 82.5 |
| 9 | 39 | 65 |
What each input means
- Teaching
- Ability to explain and clarify Scripture and truth (Romans 12:7).
- Serving
- Joy in meeting practical needs and helping behind the scenes (Romans 12:7).
- Leadership
- Ability to guide, organize, and motivate others toward vision (Romans 12:8).
- Mercy / compassion
- Deep empathy and desire to comfort those who are hurting (Romans 12:8).
- Giving
- Generosity with resources and joy in supporting others financially (Romans 12:8).
- Exhortation / encouragement
- Ability to encourage, counsel, and spur others toward growth (Romans 12:8).
- Administration
- Skill in planning, organizing details, and managing logistics (1 Cor 12:28).
What each result means
- Total score (out of 70)
- Sum of all seven gift area self-ratings.
- Overall engagement %
- Your total score as a percentage of the maximum possible.
- Gift diversity index
- 0-100 scale. Higher = more evenly balanced gifts; lower = more specialized.
- Primary gift strength %
- Your highest-rated gift as a percentage of the max score (10).
- Teaching
- Your teaching gift score.
- Serving
- Your serving gift score.
- Leadership
- Your leadership gift score.
- Mercy
- Your mercy/compassion gift score.
- Giving
- Your giving gift score.
- Exhortation
- Your exhortation/encouragement gift score.
- Administration
- Your administration gift score.
How this is calculated
Worked example, using the default values
- Identify Input Parameters4 parametersTeaching = 5, Serving = 5, Leadership = 5, Mercy / compassion = 5 = 7 input(s) provided
- Calculate Total scoreTotal score35 = 35
- Calculate Gift diversity indexGift diversity index100 = 100
- Calculate Overall engagement %Overall engagement % = (totalScore / maxPossible) * 10050 = 50%
- Calculate Primary gift strength %50 = 50%
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