1 Corinthians 14 (Gifts that bring life)

1 Corinthians 14:12 "...Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church."

It has been mentioned on here before about trying to find out what your spiritual gifts are. Once we come to that realization of our gifts we naturally begin to try to use them or "flex our spiritual muscle" so to speak. A poignant question becomes "are you using your gifts to build up the church?"

So let's back up and first seek finding our personal God-given spiritual gifts. Here is a link to take a real long test to find out your spiritual gifts.
http://www.kodachrome.org/

My top 5 turned out to be Exhortation, Encouragement, Faith, Pastoring, Wisdom/Teaching.
The test gives you a run down of your rankings on 29 aspects of spiritual gifts. If somebody knows of a better test please post it. I'm not going to lie that test was long and I felt like quitting at multiple times, so cut out a solid 10 minutes to take it.

After we find out our gifts we should ask ourselves if we're really using them to build up the church. Do you have a church you call home? Do you know anybody at that church that you reach out to for fellowship? Are you involved in the church in anyway? Do you have a small group? These are some of the questions we should ask ourselves to accurately determine whether we are using our gifts to build up the church the way God intended.