Views on gifts are often driven more by experience than Scripture; the exegetical case against cessationism from 1 Cor 13 is strong but trajectory arguments for cessationism are weak.

Winger agrees that experience often drives people's positions on both sides. He states he cannot find a strong biblical argument for cessationism from 1 Cor 13. He also evaluates cessationist "trajectory" arguments (the arc of the NT implies cessation) as too weak to override the explicit biblical instructions encouraging and governing the gifts.