Spiritual Teaching Gifts
Illustration
by Dr. Earl Radmacher

The following is an attempt by  Dr. Earl Radmacher and Gordon McMinn to identify and define spiritual gifts centered around teaching.

  1. Prophecy: setting before people the Word and wisdom of God persuasively.
  2. Encouragement: drawing alongside to comfort, encourage, rebuke, and lead someone into insight toward action.
  3. Teaching: laying down in a systematic order the complete truth of a doctrine and applying it incisively to life.
  4. The message of wisdom: Locating formerly unknown principles as well as combining known principles of God's Word and communicating them to fresh situations.
  5. The message of knowledge: Arranging the facts of Scripture, categorizing these into prin…
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