Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

God has given to each believer something that if they understand it, there is a primary

motivation. There is a way that aligns their life, there is a primary motivation.

There is a way that aligns their life, their actions, their relationships, but only if they understand what it is and then how to deploy it. What I'm talking about is your primary spiritual

gift. If you do not know what your primary spiritual gift is, don't go away.

Four years, Chip Ingram operated in what he calls the era of ignorance, then the era of

confusion, and even after seminary, a lengthy era of discovery that left him with a lot of

theoretical knowledge, but very little real impact.

Today on Living on the Edge, as we continue in our series, you were made for more.

Chip describes his breakthrough, what he calls the era of empowerment.

If you've never been truly clear on your primary gift, today is your starting point.

Here's Chip Ingram.

I'm going to talk about how I discovered my primary spiritual gift and the impact it made on me.

Four eras occurred in my life.

The first era of my life was what I call the era of ignorance.

I never heard anyone talk about spiritual gifts.

I never heard any teaching on it, no explanation.

I was just clueless.

The next era of my journey was I call the era of confusion.

And so I just kind of put it on the back burner and didn't think much about it for several years.

Later went to seminary and, you know, you can't go to seminary without studying all the Bible and spiritual gifts.

And as a young pastor, I entered the era of what I called discovery.

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