{"id":5052,"date":"2011-01-26T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:50:41","slug":"gift-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/gift-of-knowledge.htm","title":{"rendered":"I Know Some Servants … with the Spiritual Gift of Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spiritual Gift of Knowledge Defined<\/h3>\n

to seek to learn as much about the Bible as possible through the gathering of much information and the analyzing of that data<\/em><\/p>\n

Examples of How Our Gift Mix Can Help Determine Our Best Fit in Ministry<\/h2>\n

Servant #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 He loved to study God’s Word and ferret out nuggets of truth others often missed.\u00a0 Because of how well he knew the Bible, his church’s leadership assumed he should be teaching a Bible class.\u00a0 He came thoroughly prepared with great content but people had a hard time staying awake or attentive.\u00a0 People found his teaching boring.<\/p>\n

Servant #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 He loved to study the Bible as well and also thoroughly prepared, ferreting out nuggets of truth others often missed.\u00a0 He, however, did not come across as scholarly and people were able to track with him as he systematically explained what he had learned in ways the class could understand.<\/p>\n

The second servant had both the gift of knowledge and teaching whereas the first servant did not have the gift of teaching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lessons to be learned:<\/em><\/p>\n

When recruiting teachers, don’t just look for someone who knows the Bible well.\u00a0 Look for someone\u00a0with the potential\u00a0to effectively present the knowledge they have accumulated.\u00a0 If the person has the gift of knowledge, consider\u00a0his\/her gift mix.\u00a0 Does this person also have the gift of teaching or exhortation?<\/p>\n

Someone with the gift of knowledge but not the gifts of teaching or exhortation, would be better suited for doing research for others or for writing.\u00a0 While these servants can be trained to be better communicators, they will still tend to get very detailed or present more content than people can handle.\u00a0 They will tend to struggle with the attention-getting and application parts of the lesson, wanting to get right into and stay\u00a0focused on the meat of the subject.<\/p>\n

\"Ministry<\/a>Get this example of the spiritual gift of knowledge in use, along with 20 other gifts, in the Ministry Handbook: Spiritual Gifts in Use<\/a><\/strong>. In addition, the handbook suggests spiritual gifts most typically used in 16 broad ministry areas and 27 specific tasks that may need to be accomplished in most of those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know some servants with the spiritual gift of knowledge. Servant #1: He loved to study God’s Word and ferret out nuggets of truth other’s often missed. Because of how well he knew the Bible, his church’s leadership assumed he should be teaching a Bible . . . Continue reading I Know Some Servants … with the Spiritual Gift of Knowledge<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-gifts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t