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Gifts and Fruit

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  • W. Van't Spijker

This article explores the gifts of the Spirit as well as the fruit of the Spirit. The gifts, or charismata, are given to the body of Christ, as discussed in Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12-1 Corinthians 14. The fruit, mentioned in Galatians 5:22, are one, and unite the divided life, with a view to the fruit entering the glory of God.

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Gifts and Workings of the Spirit

  • P. Niemeijer

This article discusses the gifts of the Spirit (charismata), revealing that the scriptural category of gifts of the Spirit is much broader than that of charismatic circles today. The article also details how signs and miracles differ from these gifts.

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Modern Spiritual Gifts as Analogous to Apostolic Gifts: Affirming Extraordinary Works of the Spirit within Cessationist Theology

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  • Vern S. Poythress

Poythress wants to maintain that modern gifts of the Spirit are analogous to but not identical with the gifts exercised by the apostles. He wants to maintain an exclusive divine authority of the biblical canon. These gifts are still useful to the church; therefore, he seeks a middle way between blanket approval and rejection of modern charismatic gifts.

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John Owen on Spiritual Gifts

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  • J. I. Packer

Gifts of the Spirit are those without which the church cannot subsist in the world, nor believers be useful to one another and the rest of mankind. Gifts of the Spirit give the church its inward organic life and its outward visible form. This article is an expansion of this definition by John Owen.

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The Forgotten Gifts of the Holy Spirit

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  • Dennis E. Johnson

This article is about gifts of the Spirit that can easily be forgotten, the gifts of help and mercy and the gifts of guidance and advice. For this he looks at 1 Corinthians 12:21-30. The author also talks about the relation the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit.

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The Forgotten Gifts of the Holy Spirit Creative Arts

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  • Dennis E. Johnson

This article is about the visual arts, music and song, and literature as the forgotten gifts of the Spirit. Exodus 31:1-6 is also discussed.

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1 Corinthians 13:8-13 - Eschatology or Canon?

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  • J. Boersma

Does 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 refer to the future things or to cessation of new revelation? This article looks at the believer and partial knowledge, and the gifts of the Spirit and knowledge and love.

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The Deacons: Managers of Congregational Talents

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  • John R. Sittema

This article looks at the task of the deacons with regards to the talents in the congregation and the gifts of the Spirit.

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