Spiritual Gifts List
Spiritual gifts are abilities given to individual believers by the Holy Spirit in order to equip God’s people for ministry, both for the edification of the church and for God’s salvific mission to the world.
There exist three categories of gifts in every Christian’s life.
1. Natural abilities. God-given at birth, they include things like IQ, a measure of health and strength, musical talents, linguistic abilities, mechanical aptitudes, etc.
2. Acquired abilities. These include things like cooking, sewing, driving a car, learning a language, learning to play an instrument, etc. Although we may tend to take such skills for granted, many people in the world have few opportunities to acquire skills in these areas.
3. Spiritual gifts. A believer should inform himself of the total package of these various abilities that God has placed in his life. In other words, he should take inventory to know what stock he has available for the Lord’s use. Just going through the process of taking inventory periodically may help the believer ascertain what areas of service he ought to explore.
(προφητεία, 4394) signifies “the speaking forth of the mind and counsel of God” (pro, “forth,” phemi, “to speak”
to render assistance or help by performing certain duties, often of a humble or menial nature—‘to serve, to render service, to help, service, help.’
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