16 EXPERIENCING THE SPIRIT’S GIFTS We can’t talk long about the ministry of the Holy Spirit without coming to the subject of this chapter. Now if it were just a matter of figuring out what gifts the Holy Spirit wanted to give us and then receiving them, our task would be easy. But few topics generate more confusion, crisis, and criticism than the issue of the Spirit’s work in gifting the church. Churches have split over issues such as which of the Spirit’s gifts are for today and which, if any, have
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