I'm curious when you say this. What purpose DO they serve. When someone is set free, delivered, healed, or even receives the miracle of salvation, what purpose does that serve? .. if not the same purpose it served during the 1st century.
Or are you stating that you don't believe miraculous gifts don't exsist anymore?
The gift of salvation absolutely exists. The miraculous gifts I am speaking of, including speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miraculous healing, however, do not exist in the church today.