1. An Introduction to Spiritual Gifts By Paul Cornwell

2. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 1. Fact that Gifts are Listed in Scripture. Romans 12:6-8 I Corinthians 12:8-11 and 28 Ephesians 4:11

3. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 2. The Gifts Define our Function in the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12: 24 But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, 25 so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

4. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 3. It is God’s Desire that We Understand the Spiritual Gifts. I Corinthians 12:1 N OW concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.

5. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 4. Every Christian has a Spiritual Gift. I Peter 4: 10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

6. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 4. Every Christian has a Spiritual Gift. I Tim 4:14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed upon you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.

7. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 4. Every Christian has a Spiritual Gift. II Tim 1:6 And for this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

8. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 5. Spiritual Gifts are given so that every Christian can experience the joy and fulfillment of God working through him or her.

9. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 6. Spiritual gifts are given as God’s means to ministry design, balance, and effectiveness. Design – Where a church focuses its ministry should be guided by what spiritual gifts are present in mature believers.

10. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 6. Spiritual gifts are given as God’s means to ministry design, balance, and effectiveness. Balance – Balance in a Christian’s life and in local church ministry is created.

11. Why Study Spiritual Gifts? 6. Spiritual gifts are given as God’s means to ministry design, balance, and effectiveness. Effectiveness – Joy, unity-harmony, and love for one another are among the primary indicators of an effective congregation.

12. The Purposes of the Spiritual Gifts 1. Personal Spiritual Development Romans 1:11 For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; 12 that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

13. The Purposes of the Spiritual Gifts 1. Personal Spiritual Development Ephesians 4:14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

14. The Purposes of the Spiritual Gifts 2. The Welfare of the Body of Christ Romans 12; I Corinthians 13; Ephesians 4 John 17:20 “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us,

15. The Purposes of the Spiritual Gifts 3. The Evangelization of the Lost John 17:20 “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

16. The Purposes of the Spiritual Gifts 3. The Evangelization of the Lost Acts 1:8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”