Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide
Written by Sam Storms
Narrated by Adam Barr
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About this audiobook
What are spiritual gifts?
Storms has spent several decades teaching on the topic of the spiritual gifts and equipping believers in the faithful practice of God's gifts. Yet there remains a great deal of confusion about the nature of the gifts and how they best function in the body of Christ.
In this comprehensive guide to the spiritual gifts, Storms addresses the many bizarre and misleading interpretations while confronting the tendency to downplay the urgency of spiritual gifts for Christian living and ministry. He explains how spiritual gifts--both the more miraculous and the everyday--are given to build up the body of Christ.
God has graciously provided these "manifestations of the Spirit" so that believers might encourage, edify, strengthen, instruct, and console one another, all with a view to an ever-increasing, incremental transformation into the image of Jesus Christ. Throughout this guide, Sam Storms unpacks the glorious truth that there is a supernatural and divine energy or power that fills and indwells the body and soul of every Christian believer.
Understanding Spiritual Gifts is useful as a reference to address common questions about the gifts, but it also serves as a training manual for using and exercising the gifts in ministry. It is perfect for any individual or group who wants to grow in their understanding of spiritual gifts for today.
Sam Storms
Sam Storms (PhD, University of Texas at Dallas) has spent more than four decades in ministry as a pastor, professor, and author. He is the pastor emeritus at Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was a visiting associate professor of theology at Wheaton College from 2000 to 2004. He is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries and blogs regularly at SamStorms.org.
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Reviews for Understanding Spiritual Gifts
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very well presented and balanced! I appreciate how he expounds on scripture and brings it to bear on how we understand spiritual gifts. He is a continuationist but does not believe in the second work of grace. Very well balanced and respectful!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found this book scripturally accurate and well presented. It is a little long and sometimes tedious. Often I couldn’t appreciate the controversy he was trying to address. It often seemed a contrived argument for the sake of refuting it. But the author thoroughly covers everything I can think of. He really helped me better grasp my failure to accept the work of the Holy Spirit. I believe I quench Him in my life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5VERY comprehensive guide to this topic. Storms does a thorough job exegeting the Scriptures and addressing both sides of the continuationist and cessation it’s arguments. Recommend reading this content as is harder to grasp it all through audiobook format.