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. 363 pp.