We had breakfast today with a very nice Christian woman. The topic of spiritual gifts came up and it became apparent to me that the gifts were not active in her Christian world view. I left some what frustrated.

I run across different Christians in my daily walk and after a few minutes with them can sometimes get a picture of their belief structure. One guy a few days ago served a mechanistic God. He was not truly in a father son relationship with God in his Christian world view. More of a rule following relationship with not much personal autonomy allowed. One thing this fella said to me, "I don't think that we can ask God for something."

Anyway...

Here is a good starting place for anyone who believes that the gifits of the Holy Spirit are not for today:

http://www.jimfeeney.org/giftsofholyspirit.html
And here is one man's story of his expeirence in discovery of the Gifts and the fruit of it...
http://phoenixpreacher.net/?p=2698#comments