Gifts Vs. Offices (Part 2)

This is second part of two-part series aimed at demonstrating that there are distinct and vital differences between the nine Manifestation Gifts, aka, the Charismata or Gifts of the Spirit, enumerated in Scripture and the five Ministry Gifts also delineated in Scripture. I urge you to read Part 1 of this series to understand the foundation and framework we are working from in this part. The overall point is that there are indeed major differences between the gifts of the Spirit and the offices Jesus established as the Head of the Church through which to continue His own ministry on the Earth in the Church He is building in His absence and on His behalf until He returns to claim the Church as His Eternal Bride, thereby culminating both the Church itself as well as the Church Age.

Modern-Day Sadducees

Modern day Sadducees not only, “make utterly nothing of prophecy,” they also deny the reality of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This doctrine has produced spiritual morticians which have so effectively turned their churches into funeral parlors that even God is not welcome in them if He disturbs the dead. Even the thought of the disruption produced by the “rushing mighty wind” of the Holy Spirit’s presence alarms them.

A Brief Primer on the Contemplative Prayer Deception

Editor’s Note: It has been astounding to me over the past two decades or so to see that virtually none of those who identify as “leaders” within the Charismatic realm, including the elite, eminent super-apostles of the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (ICAL), and the like, have spoken out to warn the Pentecostal-Charismatic stream concerning the panoply of deceptions that have been promulgated by the so-called “emerging” or “emergent” church during that time; and, they are many. Frankly, I have been waiting and watching, hoping that someone with a national voice would step forward with such some prophetic warnings against these dastardly but insidious “doctrines of demons” (1 Tim. 4:1). However, the silence has been ear-piercing as well as dumbfounding, to say the least!