Spiritual Gifts, What Is Their Purpose?

This article talks about Cognitive-Behavior therapy and using prayer and scripture appropriately, how to approach using biblical/ Christian values in therapy. The journal also talks about an historical overview of behavioral therapy, throughout the years. The commentary discusses the two component of mindfulness, in which the first component engages self-guidance concentration and the second component engages implementing a meticulous direction that is distinguish by interest. He discusses the eight main features of the Christian approach to

Charismatic Spiritual Gifts; I believe while God still does some amazing miracles, signs, and wonders and sometimes performs those wonders through a Christian. I believe these things are not necessarily the miraculous gifts of the Spirit as we see in the New Testament. While the Bible does not say outright that the miraculous gifts have ceased, I believe it does lay the foundation for why they might no longer occur to the same extent as they did as recorded in the New Testament.

Charles Ryrie holds a Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PH.D from the University of Edinburgh. Hence, he is quite knowledgeable about theology and the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Ryrie’s book is comprised of twenty-two chapters. He includes a section in the book that provides other helpful books the reader might find invaluable to read on the subject of the Holy Spirit. At the end of the book there are two indexes – an index of subjects and an index of select scripture passages.

The King James Version of the Bible, Retrieved on January 28, 2015 from 2 Corinthians 5: 16-

God has blessed each of us with our own set of gifts. These gifts, ultimately for his glory, exist to help us help others in some fashion. In week two of this course, an assignment to assess and discuss our own gifts was completed. In order to fulfill the assignment an assessment was completed. According to the assessment, my gifts are craftsmanship, exhortation, helps, encouragement, giving, and wisdom. Each gifts holds a purpose and connects to other similar gifts.

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Peter H. Reynold’s children’s book, “Ish”, touches upon one gift of the Holy Spirit as explained in the in-class presentation. Specifically, the gift of the Holy Spirit that this story most clearly defines is wisdom. Wisdom, as defined in the presentation, is “to know that you need to love spiritual things more than material things”, and the story “Ish” clearly shows that through its initial recognition of the level of importance of the physical drawing that the protagonist, Ramon, is frustrated due to his incompetence and lack of proficiency in artistic ability. However, as the story progresses to the point where Ramon gives up due to repeated failure to “draw it right”, his sister, through her act of collecting the drawings that Ramon deemed as failures, where his sister understands the underlying picture and the more real spiritual meaning behind the artwork that Ramon, understands and explains to Ramon that it isn’t whether the physical drawing is “real” or not, nor is it the literal artwork, but rather the spiritual meaning and story that each drawing has to tell that truly makes a difference, and that he should not drown in whether the artwork looks “right” but rather learn to love and appreciate that every picture he draws tells a story.

His wisdom is incorporated into everything He has created. He uses our bodies to work in His way, such as playing musical instruments to perform in His way, as Wolters describes. Although, the trumpet is an odd analogy being used, I understand the meaning of God handling us with such care and with knowledge of how to use us. With scripture, it is the same thing. We need to look to scripture for our own knowledge to shape the way we think of God as well as His word to be the condition of our freedom in this world.

The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, and is equal in essence and in power in the Trinity to the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit was originally sent by Jesus after his ascension into heaven, Jesus himself saying that he would send a “helper” after he departed from the earth. This spirit is worshipped just as the Father and the Son are, and also participated in the creation of the world, sustaining and giving life continually to all things, and exhibits the uniqueness and characteristics of the third person in the Trinity. This is the same Holy Spirit that divinely inspired the infallible word of God, and although the canon is now closed, the Holy Spirit still works powerfully and constantly in the life of the church and in believers. The Holy Spirit is the giver of spiritual gifts, which are given at conversion and help the believer become more like their creator. The presence of the Holy Spirit is evident in the life of all true believers, and this Spirit turns cowardly men into mighty warriors for Christ who accomplish actions way beyond their natural ability.

Cranford, Lorin L. "An exposition of James 2." Southwestern Journal Of Theology 29, no. 1 (Sep

Jesus’ initial response seems somewhat hard and insensitive to me, but as Laney notes He is addressing the Jewish people in general and the fact that they have a need to see signs to justify their faith. (Laney, 1992, p.102)

Greidanus, Sidney. “Preaching Christ from the Old Testament.” Bibliotheca Sacra 641, no. Jan (2004): 4–13.

The second sign that Jesus performed in the book of John is the healing of the nobleman’s son (4:46¬–54). This sign is more easily found because Jesus here calls out the nobleman, saying that unless he sees “signs and miracles,” he simply won’t believe (v.48). In this passage, an official comes to Jesus asking him to heal his son. However, the official wants Jesus to go to his house. Jesus decides to answer his request but in a different way. Instead of going to the man’s house, Jesus simply told him that if he believed and went home, his son would be healed. The official did as told, and his son was healed. Jesus performed another miracle, but how is his deity displayed. Jesus shows his deity here by healing the official’s son by simply speaking and not seeing nor touching. During this time, just like every other time in history, there have been doctors. If Jesus went to the official’s house and healed the boy, it could be possible that Jesus would be viewed as such. However, since Jesus did the miracle just by spoken word, his power must be great. In fact, He must be God.

The various gifts of the Holy Spirit as listed in Scripture are conveyed according to the will of the Holy Spirit to every man for the eventual purpose of the edification and building up the church body.

Many believers still want God to speak to us through signs so we can have a clearer understanding of what exactly is trying to be said. But to want that is to misunderstand the Bible. According to Tullian Tchividjian, senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, “God’s Word comes to us in two forms: law and gospel. The law is