Spiritual Gifts

JI Packer writes ‘For centuries the churches assumed that only a minority of Christians (good clergy and some few others) had gifts for ministry, and they gave the whole subject of gifts small attention. Prior to the twentieth century, only one full-scale study of the gifts of the Spirit had been written in English, penned by the Puritan John Owen in 1679, 1680.’[1]

This week I will be writing a series of short pieces about our use of spiritual gifts in communities of faith. This series on Spiritual Gifts belongs to the sermon titled ‘Charisma (1 Peter 4:10)’ which I preached at St Philips, York Street on Sunday night. You can downloaded it here or on the resource page.

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[1] Packer, Keep in Step , 28.