Justin Peters on Continuation of spiritual gifts
No, they ceased with the apostolic age
The Apostolic gifts are no longer in operation today, as evidenced by both the Bible (1 Corinthians 13:8, 12; Galatians 4:13; 1 Timothy 5:23) and the vast majority of the testimony of church history.
THE POSITION
Cessationist on the miraculous gifts and only those. He divides the gifts in two: the Apostolic gifts — tongues, interpretation, divine revelation, physical healing — have ceased, while the ministering gifts of prophecy, service, teaching, leading, exhortation, giving, mercy and helps continue. The argument for cessation runs through sufficiency: the Apostolic gifts' function is already fulfilled and they are therefore unnecessary, because Scripture is complete for knowing and obeying God's will.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
7 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.
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"Justin Peters on Continuation of spiritual gifts", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/spiritual-gifts (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/spiritual-gifts).