Churches of Christ are firmly cessationist: they teach that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit — including tongues, prophecy, and healing miracles — were given to confirm the apostolic message and ceased once the New Testament canon was complete. No new revelation from God beyond the completed Scriptures is expected or claimed. Claims of contemporary prophecy or miraculous gifts are generally viewed with skepticism or as deception.

This cessationist position is a major practical distinctive of mainstream Churches of Christ. It flows from their hermeneutic: the Bible is the complete and sufficient Word of God, leaving no need for supplementary revelation. 1 Corinthians 13:8–10 is read as teaching the cessation of gifts with the completion of the 'perfect' (the completed New Testament). This stance puts Churches of Christ in sharp tension with Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity.