NOBLE Assessment

Gifts & Service

Spiritual Gifts Reference

Explore the gifts, orientations, and reported experiences used in the assessment. Each guide begins with Scripture, follows the Bible's one story, and keeps love and the common good at the center.

Service Gifts

How you're wired to serve

Recurring patterns in how you serve, strengthen, care for, lead and build up others, drawn from Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12 and related New Testament passages.

Serving

Noticing unattended practical work and getting it done, whether or not it was assigned.

Helps

Taking specific burdens off another person so they can carry out their own role effectively.

Mercy

Moving toward people in pain with compassionate presence rather than immediate problem-solving.

Exhortation / Encouragement

Helping a discouraged or stuck person identify a faithful next step and urging them toward it.

Giving

Releasing money, possessions and resources for God's work and for others' needs, unprompted.

Leadership

Clarifying direction for a group and helping people commit to moving there.

Administration

Turning a goal into an organized plan of tasks, responsibilities, timing and follow-through.

Teaching

Studying Scripture carefully and explaining its meaning clearly and accurately.

Steadfast Faith

A recurring disposition of continued trust in God's character through difficulty and uncertainty.

Spiritual Discernment

Testing spiritual claims for biblical consistency, context, fruit and implications before accepting them.

Prophecy — Service Expression

Naming a biblical issue plainly and calling for a faithful response, even at social cost.

Hospitality

Noticing who is new or on the margins and taking concrete steps to bring them in.

Equipping Orientations

How you tend to strengthen others

Orientations based on Ephesians 4:11-13. These describe how you may contribute to developing and equipping others. They never assign a church office or title.

Apostolic Orientation

Energized by establishing new ministry work and connecting people and resources around a larger mission.

Prophetic Orientation

Recognizing larger spiritual patterns and calling a person or community toward deeper alignment with God.

Evangelistic Orientation

Adapting how the gospel is explained so someone who does not follow Jesus can genuinely engage with it.

Shepherding Orientation

Taking ongoing responsibility for particular people's spiritual well-being through slow seasons.

Teaching Orientation

Developing people until they can understand, apply and communicate truth without depending on you.

Manifestation Experiences

How you've experienced the Spirit working

1 Corinthians 12 describes manifestations of the Spirit given for the common good, distributed by the Spirit according to His will. These results reflect reported experience only — never verified supernatural causation, and never permanent possession.

Wisdom

Reported experience of timely understanding of what should be done, beyond what had been reasoned out.

Knowledge

Reported experience of specific information about a person or situation with no ordinary way of knowing it.

Gift of Faith

Reported occasions of unusual, situation-specific certainty that God would act.

Healing

Reported experience of prayer for an identifiable condition followed by meaningful reported improvement.

Miracles

Reported experience of extraordinary outcomes during prayer or ministry that those involved believed reflected divine intervention.

Prophecy

Reported experience of receiving and sharing a specific Spirit-prompted message for a person or group.

Distinguishing of Spirits

Reported experience of unusual clarity about the spiritual source or character of what was occurring.

Tongues

Reported experience of speaking or praying in tongues understood to be enabled by the Holy Spirit.

Interpretation of Tongues

Reported experience of personally giving an interpretation of a message in tongues.