I very much appreciate David Cloud's study of this topic, Beth, and his commentary at his website was a big part of my finally freeing myself from any lingering doubts about the validity of the gifts for today. But mostly what I personally needed to see was the extent of demonic activity in the gifts movement as the arguments about scripture had never seemed conclusive to me, but Pastor Cloud does show the purpose of the sign gifts from scripture in what you quote above and that is very convincing.