I believe a spiritual gift (charisma) is a graciously given supernaturally designed ability granted to every believer by which the Holy Spirit ministers to the body of Christ, that "there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit" (1Co 12:4), that a spiritual gift cannot be earned, pursued, or worked up, "but to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good" (1Co12:7), that the Holy Spirit distributes these gifts "to each one individually just as He wills" (1Co 12:11), that "God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired" (1Co12:18), that "each one has received a special gift" and is to "employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God" (1Pe 4:10), that "whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were, the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so as by the strength which God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen" (1Pe 4:11), that we each "have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us" (Ro 12:6), that the gifts include "prophecy ...service...teaching...exhortation he who gives...he who leads...he who shows mercy." (Ro12:7, 8).