Faith and Christianity

A quick-reference guide to spiritual gifts

This is a few months old I forgot to publish it.
Not only Quick, but excellent. Jesse Johnson has a complete list in the link below.
We all have read these over and over, and in some parts of the visible church they try to hold on to the 2nd set of gifts and enforce them today. But there are plenty in the first group that are available. But one doesn’t need to have them all. We all have our specialties (though we should not purposefully neglect working in other ways when we have opportunity). I’ve come to see my own list as:

Teaching (Romans 12:71 Corinthians 12:28Ephesians 4:11) Instructing people in Jesus’ teachings. This is a basic form of discipleship, and is part of the great commission (Matthew 28:20), but is also a requirement for elders (1 Timothy 3:2)

Wisdom (1 Corinthians 12:8) A person who skillfully applies godly counsel to practical situations. It is one thing to know Proverbs, it is another to see how they practically apply to the messy situations of life, and that is where this person is needed in the church. 

Knowledge (1 Corinthians 12:8) The ability to understand theology and the meaning of Scripture. 

Faith (1 Corinthians 12:9) A persisting and unwavering trust in God’s promises, despite difficult situations. 

Discernment (1 Corinthians 12:10) The ability to recognize and warn against bad doctrine and counterfeit gospels.

I think the latest to grow is faith, particularly when I came to believe in the truth of the Bible in it’s entirety, not just those passages I like. None are perfect and all are areas for more growth.

2Ti 3:15  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Mat 28:19  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Mat 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

And it goes without saying:

1 Corinthians 12:31  But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

1Co 13:1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1Co 13:2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

1Co 13:4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1Co 13:8  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there betongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

1Co 13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1Co 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.


A quick-reference guide to spiritual gifts

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