{"id":152,"date":"2010-04-05T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/04\/spiritual-gifts.html"},"modified":"2010-04-05T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:47:19","slug":"spiritual-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/04\/spiritual-gifts.html","title":{"rendered":"#143 Spiritual gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"236\" alt=\"spiritualgiftsopensmaller.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/spiritual%20gifts\/spiritualgiftsopensmaller.JPG\" width=\"514\" \/><\/span><br \/>Spiritual gifts were outlined in some of Paul&#8217;s letters and today are the Christian culture equivalent of astrological signs. Both spiritual gifts and astrological signs have handy charts devised from ancient lore which&nbsp;people use&nbsp;to find their gifting\/predisposition\/reason for being lovely\/reason for being a choad.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"235\" alt=\"leadership7sm.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/spiritual%20gifts\/leadership7sm.JPG\" width=\"377\" \/><\/span><br \/>Some of the gifts Paul talked about are prophecy, ministry, teaching, exhortion, giving, leading, compassion, wisdom, knowledge, speaking in tongues, interpreting said tongues, and healing. Hey, that&#8217;s twelve!&nbsp;Just like there are twelve astrological signs. Nah, there are probably more spiritual gifts to be wrung out&nbsp;than that. When it comes to Christian culture, there is always more Stuff you can Do.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"331\" alt=\"spiritualgiftsopenyours.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/spiritual%20gifts\/spiritualgiftsopenyours.jpg\" width=\"259\" \/><\/span>Once someone has discerned their spiritual gifting they are usually quite excited to put it to good use. In this writer&#8217;s case, her alleged gifting has prompted her to proffer &#8220;inspired&#8221; advice, casually ask intrusive questions, and tell her college roommate with immense smugness that she ought to take down that Metallica poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiritual gifts were outlined in some of Paul&#8217;s letters and today are the Christian culture equivalent of astrological signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,293,294,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostle-paul","category-astrology","category-smugness","category-spiritual-gifts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#143 Spiritual gifts - Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/04\/spiritual-gifts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#143 Spiritual gifts - 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