Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide

Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide

by Sam Storms
Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide

Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide

by Sam Storms

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Overview

What are spiritual gifts?

Storms has spent several decades teaching on the topic of the spiritual gifts and equipping believers in the faithful practice of God's gifts. Yet there remains a great deal of confusion about the nature of the gifts and how they best function in the body of Christ.

In this comprehensive guide to the spiritual gifts, Storms addresses the many bizarre and misleading interpretations while confronting the tendency to downplay the urgency of spiritual gifts for Christian living and ministry. He explains how spiritual gifts—both the more miraculous and the everyday—are given to build up the body of Christ.

God has graciously provided these "manifestations of the Spirit" so that believers might encourage, edify, strengthen, instruct, and console one another, all with a view to an ever-increasing, incremental transformation into the image of Jesus Christ. Throughout this guide, Sam Storms unpacks the glorious truth that there is a supernatural and divine energy or power that fills and indwells the body and soul of every Christian believer.

Understanding Spiritual Gifts is useful as a reference to address common questions about the gifts, but it also serves as a training manual for using and exercising the gifts in ministry. It is perfect for any individual or group who wants to grow in their understanding of spiritual gifts for today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310111498
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 319,114
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sam Storms (Ph D, University of Texas) is founder of Enjoying God Ministries, which provides biblical and theological resources to the body of Christ. He is also the senior pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City and a former professor. Storms travels both in the United States and abroad, speaking at churches and conferences. He is the author of over thirty books including Practicing the Power, Understanding Spiritual Gifts, and Understanding Spiritual Warfare. He blogs regularly at www.samstorms.org.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Part 1 The Nature, Purpose, and Prayerful Pursuit of Spiritual Gifts

1 Supernatural Power for Life and Ministry 3

2 Spiritual Gifts: What Are They, and Why Does God Give Them? 18

3 How Many Spiritual Gifts Are There, and How Many Might a Christian Receive? 33

4 Our Responsibility to Desire and Pray for Spiritual Gifts 48

Part 2 The Debate ever the Cessation or Continuation of Miraculous Gifts of the Spirit

5 Biblical and Theological Arguments in Support of Cessationism 69

Excursus: A Response to Jonathan Edwards on the Cessation of the Charismata 87

6 Biblical and Theological Arguments in Support of Continuationism 98

7 The Evidence from Church History 123

Part 3 Revelatory Gifts of the Spirit

8 Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge 149

9 The Nature and Purpose of the Spiritual Gift of Prophecy 158

10 Is the New Testament Spiritual Gift of Prophecy Different from Old Testament Prophecy? 172

11 Judging Prophetic Utterances, and the Spiritual Gift of Discerning of Spirits 188

Part 4 Sneaking in Tongues

12 Deciphering the Gift of Speaking in Tongues 205

13 Does God Want All Christians to Speak in Tongues? And What about the Gift of Interpretation? 225

Part 5 Faith, Healing, and Miracles

14 The Spiritual Gift of Faith and Its Relationship to Healing 241

15 Miracles and the Spiritual Gift of Miracles 260

Part 6 Other Gilts and Apostleship

16 What about the Spiritual Gifts in Romans 12:6-8 and Ephesians 4:11? 281

17 Is Apostleship a Spiritual Gift, an Office, or Both? 290

18 The Qualifications for Apostleship, or Are There Apostles in the Church Today? 299

Conclusion 316

Appendix A Does God Give Spiritual Gifts to Non-Christians? 319

Appendix B What is the Future of Charismatic Renewal? Assessing its Strengths and Weaknesses 330

Subject index 341

Scripture Index 355

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