Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 04116. Whether spiritual gifts today remain a genuine part of the church’s life is one of the most practically consequential questions in modern evangelicalism, because the answer shapes what happens on a Sunday morning, how a church trains its members, and how it responds when someone claims to have prophesied or been healed. I…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04113. Whether God still does miracles today is a question I get asked more often than almost any other, usually by someone who has either just watched a television healing programme with deep suspicion or just heard a testimony from a friend that they cannot quite explain away. My answer is a careful yes,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4109. Sign gifts are often assumed, even by thoughtful Christians, to have belonged exclusively to the twelve apostles, as a kind of one-off credential to authenticate their unique office. Philip’s ministry in Samaria makes that assumption very hard to sustain. Luke tells us plainly that unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed,…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4061. Whether spiritual gifts today continue to operate the way they did in the first century turns, for a great many cessationist writers, on a single disputed phrase tucked inside 1 Corinthians 13:10, and I want to examine that phrase carefully rather than simply asserting a conclusion and moving on. Paul writes that when…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09013 The question of whether prophets exist in the church today sits at the intersection of several important issues: the nature of spiritual gifts, the sufficiency of Scripture, the closure of the canon, and the practical experience of many believers who have received what they understand to be prophetic words. The answer requires careful…