Temporary Gifts

It's of the utmost importance that our understanding of spiritual gifts be firmly founded in the scriptures. There's always a danger that we'll start out here with our experience and we'll back up now and try to interpret the word of God through our experience and it must go the other way. Do we have gifts of miracles today? Gifts of speaking in tongues; are they present today? Gifts of prophesy and apostleship; are they present today? That's a very, very important question and one that I think the scripture resolves quite clearly.