How many gifts of the Holy Spirit are listed in the New Testament? I suppose it depends on the criteria you use.
Whatever your standards for inclusion on the gift list, and
whatever your final gift count, you will surely notice that several factors complicate
our application of these familiar passages of scripture to the church today:
- In many instances the exact nature of the gift and how we might expect it to show itself are not precisely spelled out for us;
- We no longer have apostles in the sense the word is used of the Twelve;