Discover Your Gifts: Celebrating How God Made You and Everyone You Know

Have you ever wondered about the remarkable gifts you possess and how they can shape your life and the lives of those around you? Don Everts invites you to recognize and embrace your unique gifts. As a senior pastor with 30 years of experience, Everts combines his expertise with new research to explore a wide range of God-given abilities, including spiritual, civic, artistic, and entrepreneurial talents. In this captivating book, you will discover how to make a lasting impact in your vocation and become a blessing to those around you.

While many churches have traditionally focused primarily on spiritual gifts and vocations within the church, Everts uncovers the broader spectrum of abilities, skills, and aptitudes that each person possesses. Whether your gifts lie in civic engagement, artistic expression, or entrepreneurial endeavors, this book will inspire you to recognize and utilize your God-given gifts within your vocational calling in the world. By doing so, you will discover how your gifts can bless others and facilitate meaningful connections within your surrounding communities.

Delve into the following topics as you uncover the true potential within you:

1. Everyone Is a Gift: The Power of Seeing People as God Sees Them
2. Everyone Has a Gift: The Power of Discovering the Gifts That God Has Entrusted to Us
3. Everyone Is Called: The Power of Naming Our God-Given Vocations
4. Everyone Can Grow: The Power of Helping Each Other Grow in Our Gifts
5. Every Church Can Equip: The Power of Unleashing People to Use Their Gifts

Don Everts is the senior pastor of First and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri, and is a writer for Lutheran Hour Ministries and the Hopeful Neighborhood Project. Don has spent almost three decades helping people on college campuses and in the local church become good stewards of their God-given gifts. Along the way, his wife, Wendy, has been helping Don do the same. His many books include The Reluctant Witness, The Spiritually Vibrant Home, and The Hopeful Neighborhood, all of which feature original research from Barna and biblical insights for our everyday lives.