An important part of discovering your destiny is understanding your passion. When you have a passion for an area of ministry, you are more enthusiastic and motivated to serve.

Making a statement of passion is not easy for everyone. Remember that this is just the beginning of the process of identifying and clarifying your passion. As you think, pray, and gain more ministry experience, your passion will become more clear over time.

Directions:
1. Prayerfully consider your answers to the questions.
2. Complete the assessment on your own.
3. there are no right or wrong answers.
4. Don’t be concerned about “whether” you can do it or “how” it can be done.
5. Complete the assessment as if you have no obstacles to fulfilling your heart’s desire.

Questions:
1. If I could snap my fingers and know that I couldn’t fail, what would I do?

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2. At the end of my life, I’d love to be able to look back and know that I’d done something about:
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3. If I were to mention your name to a group of friends, what would they say you were really interested in or passionate about?
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4. What conversation would keep you talking late into the night?

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5. What I would most like to do for others is:

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6. The people I would like to help the most are:
Infants Children Youth teen moms
Single parents college students divorced widowed
singles career women young marrieds refugees
parents empty nesters homeless unemployed
elderly disabled prisoners poor
hospitalized
Other: ___________________________________________________

7. The issues or causes I feel strongly about are:
Environment Child Care Homosexuality Discipleship
AIDS politics Violence Injustice
Racism Education Addictions International
economic Reaching the lost Technology health care
poverty family abortion hunger
literacy church
Others: ___________________________________________________

8. The following exercise may help you uncover a theme from your experience which will give you insight into your passion.

List the top five to seven positive experiences you’ve had in your life and briefly describe what you did and why it was meaningful to you. These experiences may have taken place at home, work, school, or during your free time. It may have been a clock you fixed or a dress you made. It may have been a puzzle you put together or an award you received. It may have been helping some friends move, building a house, winning an election, or giving to someone in need. Remember, these are experiences that you enjoyed doing and felt fulfilled.

9. I think the area where I could make the most significant contribution is: ___________

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If you need more help in identifying your passion, look for patterns in your answers. For example, can you see any themes? Does a particular age group keep coming up? Is there a need that keeps surfacing? Are you serving in a similar role in different areas? Can you prioritize your concerns?

10. Based on my answers to the above questions, I sense I have a passion for:

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