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Gifts of the Holy Spirit Bible Study THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT Bible Studies For Small Groups Copyright©2008 Revised Version Vineyard Church of Columbus All rights reserved. THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT Table of Contents Study 1: An Introduction To The Gifts Of The Spirit 3 Study 2: Prophecy 17 Study 3: Supernatural Insight: Wisdom, Knowledge, Discernment: Part One 29 Part Two 45 Study 4: What To Do With Tongues? 55 Study 5: Supernatural Power: Faith, Healings, Miracles 65 Study 6: Gifts of Service: The Hands Of God 81 We would like to thank our volunteer editors, Mike Farley, Lori Johnson, Tammy Lind, and Susan Pavilkey for their invaluable assistance in preparing these studies. We also want to acknowledge Dr. Steve Robbins’ generous contribution of his time and expertise so that we might better comprehend and apprehend the Spirit’s gifts. Beth Crawford, General Editor GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 12:1—13 By Beth Crawford The gifts of the Spirit are not trophies, talents, traits or toys. The gifts of the Spirit are God’s supernatural expressions of love, caring, kindness, healing and concern—bestowed on us and through us. John Wimber Spiritual gifts are like God’s power tools. Rich Nathan It is clear that Paul anticipated a lively ‘charismatic’ church, in which every area of Christian life and ministry was deeply shaped by experiential awareness of the Spirit. … It is his vision of the church as a body continually open to the Spirit and regularly experiencing God’s intervention in varieties of gift—combined with his own pastoral example, oversight, and encouragement— which seems to have maintained this enthusiastic expectation and experience. … All authentic Christian church life—life that mediates the presence and power of God in a variety of ways — is charismatic in its truest sense. Max Turner Copyright©2008 Revised Version Vineyard Church of Columbus All rights reserved. Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, Today's New International® Version TNIV©. Copyright 2001, 2005 by International Bible Society®. Used by permission of International Bible Society®. All rights reserved worldwide. "TNIV" and "Today's New International Version" are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society®. 3 AIM • To explain, identify, describe the gifts of the Holy Spirit and to inspire greater expectation and usage of them. KEY VERSES “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. … All these are the work of the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.” 1 Corinthians 12:7, 11 PREPARATION The authors of this series suggest you read over the notes on “How to Teach the Bible in Small Group” and “Some Practical Suggestions for Leading a Small Group Discussion” in Vineyard Church of Columbus’ Small Group Leadership Training Manual if you feel your inductive study skills are rusty. Before you go over the Scripture text, pray that God would give you direction for leading your group and teach you something relevant. Then, read through the passage, keeping an open heart and ear to the Lord. Finally, work through the Bible study notes and questions below. These studies contain more background material and information on the passages than any group will cover in a meeting. Therefore, use this Bible study as a framework for the discussion you lead in your small group meeting. This means you will need to • Go over the questions and choose which ones you want to emphasize and which you will eliminate since your time is limited. • Note that the application questions are marked with a bullet (·). Rather than leaving all of these until the end of the study, ask one or two as you work through the passage so people are being confronted by Scripture’s truths and applying them to their own lives. • Pace yourself. If you find you are falling behind schedule and need to move ahead, you could summarize some of the passage and then go to the final questions. • Select one application question you will use with your group at the end. The question may have more than one part, but focus on the vital Biblical truth you want to encourage your group to implement in your final question. • Feel free to suggest that your group continue a discussion at the next meeting or at another informal get together. You want to leave time for worship, listening to God, and prayer ministry, so don’t feel you must cover every nugget of truth in a passage or allow each group member to share a mini-sermon on every question! • You may want to create your own introduction by using a personal example or current event that illustrates the point of the study. Your introduction and any background material shared should help lead the group members’ thoughts from the present moment into the text. The authors of this series are providing these questions and accompanying material for the leader’s benefit—to help reduce your study and preparation time; to supply resources for possible questions group members may raise; and to clarify some gray areas of doctrine that may be in your mind as you prepare. Obviously, we cannot exhaust any one subject in a document like this, so you may want to do further reading and discuss doctrine with your pastor. We highly recommend The New Bible Dictionary or The New Bible Commentary as excellent resources for further study. 4 Also note that some studies advise the leaders to make copies of a handout or bring some helpful communication tool, etc. OPENERS Have you ever had someone say, “You have the gift of…?” Leaders can fill in the blank when asking the question, or leave it blank and let others reply with one or two word answers. For anyone not sure of what to reply, explain there are lots of areas of gifting people can experience. An alternate question for people who are not new to the church: Optional: Have you ever taken our class on Discovering Your Ministry? If so, what did you learn about serving Christ? Allow a brief response from several people. Some of us have had career testing or counseling. Others just tend to be pretty self- aware. How many of us could list two of our own strengths and two weaknesses—but only two? How many of us could write down in a sentence what really excites or motivates us, or what we dream about doing for the kingdom of God? Leaders may want to have group members put some of these on paper or a note card. Invite everyone to share one thing they feel is a strength or gift—without elaborating. God has arranged us in His family, the church, in a way that is meant to make us all stronger by giving us different personalities, different likes and dislikes, and very different strengths and weaknesses. In this series of studies on The Gifts of the Spirit, we are going to learn about some of the ways God works through us to reach others with the good news of Christ and to help one another grow to be more like Jesus. Before we get into the passage for our study today, we should define what we mean by the term, “the gifts of the Spirit.” The gifts of the Spirit, usually translated in our English Bibles as “spiritual gifts,” refer to the different workings of God’s Spirit through Christians so that they may minister to others some measure of God’s grace (Mare, p. 1735, n. 1:7). Some Christians look at familiar New Testament passages and arrive at a list of 19 to 21 gifts (Robbins, “RE: a few more,” p. 1). Others believe the list of gifts is endless—since God’s Spirit is sovereign and creative in the way He impacts people to do the work of the kingdom. We see the New Testament lists as helpful but not exhaustive in mentioning the workings of the Spirit. Several of the texts are actually written to correct misunderstandings in specific churches rather than written as an encyclopedic teaching on the whole subject. There is no one Greek word in the New Testament texts for “spiritual gifts.” There is the Greek word charisma and its plural form, charismata, which derive from the verb “to give graciously” (Turner, p. 264). The emphasis in these words is not on the gift as much as the giver’s generosity and grace—that is God’s generosity and undeserved favor (Turner, p. 264). The adjective pneumatikon must be added to indicate “spiritual” when describing the gifts (Turner, p. 265). 5 Throughout this series on spiritual gifts, we want to keep the Father, Son, and Spirit at the center, not our gifts or the giftings of others. We want our group to learn about the gifts as we study Scripture and also to grow in our ability to serve God through His giftings. This may require us to be more receptive to empowering from the Father and thus more expectant also that He will use us for His purposes. In this first study, we will look at what Paul said were the purposes of the gifts and the attitudes we should have as gifted people working together. At the end of the study, we can discuss how to “test our gifts” so we’ll defer questions about that until after we have covered the main points of the passage. Pray that the Holy Spirit would increase your expectation of what He can do in and through you.
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