Are There Prophets Today?

“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, . . .” (Ephesians 4:11).After his parenthetical analogy (vv. 9–10) from Psalm 68:18, Paul continues his explanation of spiritual gifts. Christ not only gives gifts to individual believers but to the total Body. To each believer He gives special gifts of divine enablement, and to the church overall He gives specially gifted men as leaders (see v. 8, “He gave gifts to men”)—as apostles . . . prophets . . . evangelists, and . . . pastors and teachers. . . .