Are Spiritual Gifts Still for Today? (Bonus Q&A Preview)

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Subscribe to Theology in the Raw on Patreon to instantly unlock this full Bonus Q&A, as well as a huge archive of bonus episodes, Extra Innings, and free video content from the Exiles in Babylon archives. Check out all the questions Preston tackled on today’s episode: * What are your thoughts on spiritual gifts, cessationism vs continuationism? * Should Protestants read the deuterocanonical books even if they don't agree they are inspired? * What are your thoughts on Open Theism? * Many people are converting to Catholicism and Pentecostalism. Do you have a theory for why these denominations are particularly reaching people in this time? * Have you ever heard of the miracle of the holy fire? How should western Christians think about and relate to traditions and rituals in the eastern church? * Matt. 16:19, 18:18. What does Jesus mean here: “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”? * If events/people in Gen. 1-11 weren't "real," what about the Noahic covenant, genealogies, doctrines, etc based on them? * Creative ideas for how we can biblically engage with pride month? In the past we have done prayer walks but that is kind of behind the scenes. * Is marriage always to be officiated in public with witnesses? In other words, if vows were made privately does that count biblically as marriage? * What unique challenges do you think a father faces when raising a daughter, and how should he address them? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, so Sarah wants to know what are my thoughts on spiritual gifts?
0:05.4	Cessationism versus continuationism.
0:09.3	That's, you know, are all spiritual gifts for today or have some ceased or have they all continued.
0:16.6	That's what those terms cessationism or continuationism means.
0:24.5	I am a continuationist.
0:26.7	I used to not be.
0:32.1	I used to, you know, I was raised in a very strong cessationist background.
0:42.7	And for several years early on, I would say I strongly supported that view. I would say when I was strongly supporting it, it had to do more with me trusting the leaders who taught me that
0:51.6	view. It wasn't really from a, you know, raw, unbiased, thorough study of
0:58.5	scripture. And I was just, you know, driven from the text of scripture to say some spiritual
1:03.6	gifts have ceased. When I did start to evaluate the exegetical arguments for cessationism, I became more and more just
1:14.6	unimpressed or under-impressed with the exegetical arguments. I think some are better than others.
1:22.6	I think some are just really bad. They just seem to be forced onto the text from a prior, I don't know, disdain for how
1:32.6	some churches exercise the spiritual gifts.
1:38.0	At least that was my impression.
1:39.3	So let me give a few qualifications for my, my current view that all have the gifts have continued into the present day.
1:51.1	I hold this view for exegedical reasons.
1:54.2	It really is.
1:55.0	It's not that I mean, I'm not even, I typically am not in church environments where the gifts are being, you know, exercise.
2:05.6	It's not like I'm motivated to be a continuationist because of my social or ecclesiological environment.
2:13.6	I am in, you know, charismatic circles from time to time when I speak at different churches, but I typically have not been like a member of a church where the gifts have been exercised with the same passion that they are exercised in other churches.
2:31.9	So for me, it really is just exegetical.
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