The gifts of the Holy Spirit are spiritual gifts described in the New Testament. The primary passages are First Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4.

Some Christian scholars say that there are nine gifts and others say there may be as many as twenty-seven. Bill Bright, C. Peter Wagner, Jack Deere, Billy Graham and D.A. Carson have various opinions on the very number. Other Christian scholars say that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are limited in number or they are not active today like in the early church. Commonly called Cessationism, this opinion is held by John F. MacArthur, Jr., Robert L. Thomas and many other conservative main line Christian denominations. Some Christian scholars such as Zola Levitt maintain that the number of gifts cannot be determined, because, as Levitt puts it, "A spiritual gift is anything that a person can do supernaturally well."

Emphasis on Gifts of the Holy Spirit can commonly be found in mainstream Charismatic, Pentecostal, Apostolic, and other Holiness denominations of Christianity. It is many times seen on television, where such televangelists as Benny Hinn, Rod Parsley, Morris Cerullo, John Hagee, and et cetera miraculously touch the foreheads of believers, and they suddenly drop to the floor. Many

A caveat regarding "domino anointings", where the person doing the touching lines up twenty people one behind the other, touches the first person and the entire line falls down. Take any line of people standing two feet apart with their feet together and have the first person fall back onto the second person. The third person already has 250-450 pounds falling onto his chest and pushing him backwards. Regardless of what made the first one or two people fall, the rest simply fall from gravity.

A very good book written by Roc Bottomly "The Promised Power: Experiencing The Union of Word and Spirit" is written from a conservative backround to prove the need for all the Gifts in our world today.

List of the Gifts