Maturity in the use of gifts

SUMMARY: Spiritual leaders should not suppress teaching about spiritual gifts or deny their relevance in our time. Balanced use of the gifts is needed, and mature leaders are required to teach believers about their healthy use. There is much abuse and distortion in the use of gifts, so apostolic correction is necessary. A framework of love and wisdom is needed for gifts to function properly, and they should be subject to the principles of Scripture and the understanding of God within us. The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

A serious mistake a spiritual leader can make is to suppress teaching about spiritual gifts, or to teach his congregation that gifts are not for our time. This robs them of the greatest resource that God has provided for the effectiveness and vitality of his people.

It is urgently required, however, that God's people rescue the biblical, balanced use of the gifts, and lift them out of the extremes of both fanaticism and denial in which we have now plunged them.

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