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While millions of people in the U.S. are actively involved in some sort of religious organization, many people feel disengaged from their faith communities. More than half report that they really don't get the opportunity in their congregation to do what they do best. The problem is this: too... read more
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“Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied”
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The fundamental building block of any strength is talent. When you enhance a talent by adding the right skills and useful knowledge, you have created a strength.
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Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied. Unlike skills and knowledge, talents naturally exist within you and cannot be acquired.
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A strength is the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity. This ability is a powerful, productive combination of talent, skill, and knowledge.
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Skills and knowledge can be acquired, but they will not significantly help you unless they enhance a talent.
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Skills are basic abilities to move through the fundamental steps of a task. They can be acquired through formal or informal training.
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We are not expected to be who we are not. We are expected to be who we are.
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The key to building a strength is first to identify your dominant themes of talent, then delve into those themes to discover your greatest talents, and finally produce a strength by complementing those talents with knowledge and skill related to the task.
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An important difference between talents and skills and knowledge is that although skills and knowledge can be acquired, their applicability is restricted because they can be very situation-specific.
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Knowledge is, simply, what you know. You can acquire knowledge through education or training. It may be factual knowledge, like the words of a foreign language, the books of the Bible, software features, or the table of periodic elements. It also may be experiential knowledge, which isn't taught in classrooms or in manuals. Experiential knowledge includes the insights or awareness you have gained through experience.
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Identifying your talents isn't intended to take the place of identifying your Spiritual Gifts, but rather, it can be a powerful way to enhance your Gifts and calling. Your Spiritual Gifts help you find what the ministry is that God wants to see you accomplish; your talents are God's way of showing you how you will accomplish it.
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To understand how churches often fail to tap the natural abilities of their congregants, consider the story of Liz and Rick.
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