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Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church: The Gifts of the Spirit in the First 300 Years is unavailable, but you can change that!

The emergence and widespread acceptance of the validity of the charismatic experience has generated many questions. One of the foremost is, “What happened to the gifts of the Spirit after the New Testament period?” Dr. Ronald Kydd’s careful probe seeks to answer that question. After a thorough and careful study of the writings of the early church fathers, Dr. Kydd provides an objective,...

We do not have as much information as we might like about cities such as Athens, Lystra, and Derbe, to select several at random, but maybe the kind of people who took the Gospel to them should tell us something. Paul, Barnabas, and Silas were all known as prophets among their brethren,2 a name they no doubt gained by speaking in obedience to the Spirit’s urging. It is unlikely that this aspect of their ministries changed significantly when they moved into the Greek world. They were trying to bring
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