What are spiritual gifts?
How many are there? Have some
gifts ceased? How do we seek and use
spiritual gifts?
In parts 29 and 30 of our 34-part theology series, we learn
about spiritual gifts.
Throughout Church history, the twentieth century in particular has seen a remarkable increase in
interest in spiritual gifts, primarily because of the influence of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements within the
church.1 In this lesson we will first look at some general questions regarding spiritual gifts, then
examine the specific question of whether some (miraculous) gifts have ceased. In the next lesson we will
analyze the New Testament teaching about particular gifts.
Anyone who reads the Bible on a regular basis has begun to
develop a “theology” of who God is and what he has revealed of Himself to man
down through history. But is it organized to the point where you can
confidently say “this is what the Bible teaches” on a particular topic, or do
you just base your beliefs on random verses that could well be misunderstood
because they are taken out of context?
My confidence in going out to share the Gospel with
strangers comes largely from my study of “Systematic Theology”, which I’ll
define as learning what the whole Bible teaches us about a given topic. I’m
confident that I’m not misrepresenting God as revealed in his Word, and I’m
confident when people make unbiblical claims about God that challenge my own
beliefs. I’m increasingly amazed by the consistency of the Bible, written by so
many human authors but without contradiction, that I can only conclude it was
written by divine inspiration.
I’ve gained so much personally from my systematic study of
theology that I’m teaching a 34-week class on it at church, based on Dr. Wayne
Grudem’s books “Systematic Theology” and “Bible Theology”. I’m excited to dig
deeper personally as I prepare the outlines and lessons, and I want to take as
many people along with me on this journey as possible. So I am recording the
class and posting the videos to my YouTube channel, and making downloadable PDF
chapter outlines and audio recordings available on a Google Drive folder as
well.
Care to join me? Links to my YouTube channel and shared
resources are as follows:
Video: YouTube.com/c/JeffReiman
Shared Resources folder: https://tinyurl.com/yxy2kb56
Direct link to this video: https://youtu.be/OO63Ab3Qf-k
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