If continuationism were true, there would be no argument about it among Christians.
The suggestion here is that God, if he were truly continuing to distribute miraculous and revelatory charismatic gifts throughout the Body of Christ, as Rom 12:3—8 teaches he does, then cessationism would be abandoned because of the obvious work of the Spirit’s grace in every church. In other words, if tongues and prophecy were occurring...
Monday, November 4, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Confronting Common Arguments and Objections to the Continuation of the Charismatic Gifts — Objection 4
Tongues were given by the Spirit for the proclamation of the gospel, in actual languages. Therefore, those who purport to exercise tongues as a private prayer language demonstrate both their ignorance of Paul’s teaching and the invalidity of their experience.
Are tongues only given for proclaiming the gospel in an unknown language?
No, tongues are not given for evangelism at all.1 They are given to extol the mighty works...
Monday, October 21, 2013
Providence is Remarkable: providence does not answer the question
I was the guy the Strange Fire Conference was targeting. Maybe targeting isn’t the best word choice given the confrontational positioning of the conference and the controversy that followed in its wake. What I mean to say is that I fit one of the demographic profiles of one of the groups the speakers hoped to reach. I am not a charismatic...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
If it's Not the Spirit, Who Gets the Credit?
I've been reading and listening to a lot of teaching on spiritual gifts over the last three months. And through that process, I've learned something about myself, much about my theological position, and a great deal about the position of those who disagree with me.
I’ve discovered that while I am quite confident in the validity...
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Confronting Common Arguments and Objections to the Continuation of the Charismatic Gifts — Objection 3
Fallible prophecy is an oxymoron. An infallible God cannot deliver fallible revelation.
This is a common misrepresentation of the continuationist understanding of New Testament prophecy. Neither, Wayne Grudem, nor any continuationist who agrees with him, believes that God gives fallible revelation today. On the contrary, continuationists hold that all revelation given by God is perfect, both in its content and its communication....
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