HOLY
SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS; CHURCH: HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK; CHURCH: SPIRITUAL
CONDITION

For a generation certain evangelical teachers have told us that the gifts of the Spirit ceased at the death of the apostles or at the completion of the New Testament.…

The result of this erroneous teaching is that spiritually gifted persons are ominously few among us. When we so desperately need leaders with the gift of discernment, for instance, we do not have them and are compelled to fall back upon the techniques of the world.

This frightening hour calls aloud for men with the gift of prophetic insight. Instead we have men who conduct surveys, polls and panel discussions.

We need men with the gift of knowledge. In their place we have men with scholarship—nothing more.

Romans 12:3–8; 1 Corinthians 13:10; 1 Corinthians 14:1

Keys to the Deeper Life, 44, 45.