Mark Driscoll on the spiritual gift of healing
May 11, 2009
What is the spiritual gift of wisdom?
April 28, 2009
‘13 Quick Facts about Famous Pentecostals’
April 6, 2009
Searching for the Spiritual Gifts
January 18, 2009
By Tim Challies
In recent days I have received several emails dealing with spiritual gifts. Unfortunately, due to constraints on my time, I’ve been unable to spend a lot of time answering these. Today I want to spend just a few moments at least sharing some basic biblical teaching on the spiritual gifts. Much of this is drawn from my book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment where I have an entire chapter dealing with gifts in general and the gift of discernment in particular.
Often when I hear people speak of spiritual gifts they do so in this manner. “I have the gift of [insert gift here] and my church has no way for me to serve in that way.” Or “I know what my gift is and I am looking for ways to use it.” To these people I would suggest that they may have an inaccurate or incomplete understanding of the way the gifts work …
Mark D. Roberts on spiritual gifts (update)
November 19, 2008
“Little is more important for the health and growth of the body of Christ than the power of the Holy Spirit manifested in what we call spiritual gifts. Through such bits of grace, the Spirit builds the body of Christ. In fact, it wouldn’t be too far off the mark to say that the Holy Spirit is a bodybuilder. …”
(update 11/7) Part 2: “The Abuse of Spiritual Experiences in Corinth . . . and Today“:
“We have seen what might be called an outbreak of ‘Corinthianism’ in the last fifty years. Positively, millions of Christians began to discover the power of the Spirit through spiritual gifts. Negative[ly], this often caused division in the church … Let me supply a bit of history that places our conversation of spiritual gifts in context …”
(update 11/10) Part 3: “The Ministry of the Spirit in ”
(Update 11/11) Part 4: “Defining ‘Spiritual Gifts‘”
(Update 11/13) Part 5: “Spiritual Gifts as ‘Momentary Empowerments’ for Ministry”
Part 6: “When and How Do We Receive Spiritual Gifts?”
“Although there are benefits to the ‘discover and use your gift’ model, it only takes you so far in ministry …”
(Update 11/17) Part 7: “All Gifts Matter to the Body of Christ”
“As it turns out, most churches in today’s world, whether overtly or implicitly, value some spiritual gifts while devaluing others.”
(Update 11/19) Part 8: “Practical Instruction on the Use of Spiritual Gifts, Part 1”
Part 9: “Practical Instruction on the Use of Spiritual Gifts, Part 2”
“So far we have seen that if we want to receive spiritual gifts, we should focus, not on the gifts or on our experiences, but on loving others and building up the body of Christ. Spiritual gifts come in the context of ministry done for the sake of love and edification.”
Series: “Glossolalia (Tongues) Phenomenon in Other Religions”
October 21, 2008
Posted at en kristo, the blog of Ekaputra Tupamahu, an Assemblies of God minister who teaches theology at Satyabhakti Advanced School of Theology (STT Satyabhakti) in Indonesia:
Part 1: Glossolalia in the Ancient
Time
Part 2: Glossolalia in the Modern Age
Part 3: Some Theological Foundations
Part 4: Some Theological Foundations (cont.)
Part 5: Theological Significance of Glossolalia
On a related note, Adrian Warnock has a short post entitled, “Augustine was not a cessationist“:
“Now somebody somewhere is possibly going to try to explain to me how healing doesn’t have to be a gift of the Holy Spirit, and that not all cessationists deny the possibility of God healing today.”
