The Wrecking Ball
Faith that tears down and builds up. Jeremiah 23:29 (NKJV) “Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? Unapologetically, Dr. Bruce A. Fletcher preaches the truth of Scripture, building people up in faith and dismantling false assumptions and false teachings.
The Wrecking Ball
The Nature, Ministries and Gifts of the Holy Spirit
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Bruce A. Fletcher, PhD
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Episode 122
Part 5. The Vocabulary of Spiritual Gifts
Before we study each of the gifts enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12, we first need to explore key words.
The nature of spiritual gifts can be determined to a large degree by the vocabulary employed to refer to them. The first reference to the gifts as a general class of phenomena is found in 1 Corinthians, which was written in about 55 A.D. Chapters twelve to fourteen are devoted in their entirety to spiritual gifts.