Yes, that's right. But our natural bent is. I see that you are single. If you decide to get married one day, and God blesses you with children, amongst other things necessary for bringing children up in the ways of our God, you will need to come to terms with each of their particular giftedness/bent (what makes them tick), so you can properly guide them in their development, including what career paths they would be suited to.
It's the same for a pastor that oversees a flock of the Lord's, he needs to find out what bent each of the members he is caring for has, so he can guide them into effective service within their church group and neighbouring community. Does an individual seem particularly good at picking up on people that are hurting (especially in an emotional sense) and helping them get back on their feet; or particularly good at serving with hands; or particularly good at encouraging the best out of people; or particularly good at expounding knowledge; or particularly good at facilitation or running a project; or particularly good at making sure the material needs of members of the church are being met; or particularly good at understanding the ways of our God and how they ought be applied in every day life.
That would be a pastor trying to help people find an area to serve that they seem to be fitted for.
A study on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit will reveal that these are not distributed based on peoples personality types or natural bents.
They are manifestations within the Body of Christ that are of a supernatural kind. Like healings. Or working of miracles. Or speaking in tongues as the spirit gives utterance. Prophesy in this context is of the same supernatural characteristics. It is a divine utterance of revelation that only God could have told you about something. People are awed by the supernatural character of it, like foretelling an event that you could not have known unless God told you.
These gifts are faked by flaky people, but that happened in the first century also. It does not mean that there are not real manifestations among those who are not flakes.
There is nothing wrong with assigning volunteers to areas of ministry that seem like a good fit based on their natural abilities, leadership skills, education etc. but it is important not to confuse that with the biblical study and application of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that Paul said we should all desire. I think people do that because they can't relate to the supernatural gifts thinking that it is not something that happens today and so they attempt to apply these scriptures to a different context such as natural gifts simply so they don't have to ignore such a significant quantity of scripture on the gifts of the Spirit.
You have three choices when studying the gifts (charisma) of the Spirit.
1) believe it happened then but is not needed today so skip over it or find one or two related truths to talk about while skipping over the rest (similar to the John MacArthur style of exegesis)
2) Try and apply it to the context of natural talents and gifts by redefining each gift into something Paul never had in mind, or
3) Stick to the original intention and put yourself in the shoes of those who were operating in these gifts at that time and believe that these instructions are valid for our day because the gifts are still available (in which case some people would have to leave their church and find another one that welcomes these gifts before they would be allowed to operate in them without being shut down immediately by their unbelieving pastors, such as speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues)
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