Have the gifts ceased?

1 Corinthians 13:8-12 ESV
(8)  Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
(9)  For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
(10)  but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
(11)  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
(12)  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Those who hold to the position that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased when the final chapter of the final book of the New Testament was written are called cessationists.  Those who believe that God can and still does work through the Holy Spirit in the life of believers today may be called continuationists.

The argument by the cessationists goes something like this:  God used men to write the New Testament and so gave them miraculous abilities and gifts so they would be able to write Scripture.  Once Scripture was completed, there was no reason to continue working in this manner again as man could simply read all that was necessary.

A continuationist would say there is no such artificial stopping point noted in Scripture and that God continues to work in man through the Holy Spirit just as illustrated for us in the Scripture.

A key verse for the cessationists is the one from 1 Corinthians 13 above.  They read into the passage (eisigesis) that perfect must mean the completed New Testament canon.  If this is true then the following must also be true:

• Knowledge has ceased.  Has it? No.
• Prophecy must cease.  Has it?  That depends on how you define prophecy.  If we define it as Holy Spirit inspired forth telling, then no it hasn’t.  If we add in fore telling then that depends on the solution to the argument here.
• We see Jesus face to face.  Do we?  Obviously no.

Conclusion: we still see in a mirror dimly so we also have knowledge in part and prophecy in part and tongues (note it never mentions tongues as being in part!). 
Therefore the gifts still continue today.