What Are Spiritual Gifts?: Rethinking the Conventional View

In this groundbreaking work, New Testament scholar Berding suggests that Christians have misunderstood spiritual gifts and how they function, and thus have embarked on a misplaced search to find individualized spiritual gifts. He reconsiders at a fundamental level what spiritual gifts are and argues that the Holy Spirit does not give personalized abilities or enablements, but rather ministries to be undertaken. In this groundbreaking work, New Testament scholar Kenneth Berding suggests that we have misunderstood spiritual gifts themselves and how they function, and thus have embarked on a misplaced search to find individualized spiritual gifts. Berding reconsiders at a fundamental level what spiritual gifts are and argues that the Holy Spirit does not give personalized abilities or enablements, but rather ministries to be undertaken.