Spiritual Gifts

God Assigns Spiritual Gifts

For a third time, Paul stresses the fact that God, not man, assigned the gifts (vv. 18, 24, 28). God gives to each person and each congregation just the gifts it needs when they are needed. No individual believer possesses all the spiritual gifts. Each believer has the gift (or gifts) assigned to …

Gifts From The Risen Messiah

This passage states that all men are not born equal (v. 7). Paul describes how Jesus Christ in his crucifixion and resurrection was victorious over Satan (vv. 8-10). When you were born into this world God gave you certain natural abilities. This could be in the area of mechanics, …

IllustrationBlind man shares his honors with his friend

This story was related by Donald Grey Barnhouse. Several years ago, two students graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The highest ranking student in the class was a blind man named Overton, and when he received his honor, he insisted that half the credit should go …

IllustrationBarna – Statistics on Spiritual Gifts

Some interesting statistics by Barna Research Group, Ltd., Oxard, CA 29% of all adults – and 40% of Baby Buster adults – have never heard of spiritual gifts 69% have heard of spiritual gifts but do not know what their spiritual gift is 1% of adults and 9% of senior pasto …