Joe Kitchen’s Reviews > The Ministry Gifts: Fifteen Lessons > Status Update

Hagin's discussion of the other "ministry" gifts is based on his visions and Scripture twisting. especially "assignment" of some other gifts to the ministry gifts.

Lesson 8; The Evangelist. Hagin makes some good points. Uses Philip as example. Hagin erroneously believes that the evangelist is mentioned in the 1 Cor 12:28 list as "Miracles and gifts of healings." This is plain eisegesis. Evangelists don't require that miracles will accompany them. Again Hagin makes claims and statements that aren't in Scripture.

Lesson 6 is on The Apostle. Hagin goes through the characteristics of the apostle and the 4 classes of apostles, starting with Jesus as the Chief Apostle. It must be more that he agrees that Apostles like we see in the NT do not exist today. He goes on to describe apostles today that sound like missionaries. This is not the same as the self-proclaimed apostles of today.

Hagin makes claims without evidence, like the one about areas of Christendom not being mature because they feel certain roles were foundational

In Lesson 2, Hagin makes it clear that calling is divine. How do we recognize the calling? Intuition. What!? Doesn't he know the heart is deceitful above all things. If I know that I know, it is settled? What?

A rough start in the first 2 lessons. First of all, Hagin uses the KJV. The 5th edition I have was updated in 2004, when there were better translations available. He also seems to restrict ministry gifts to the "5-fold" ministry in Eph. 4:11. He fails to stress that these gifts are to equip the saints to build up the Church.