by admin | Feb 20, 2021 | Authority, Charismatic Cultism, Charismatic Gifts, Church, Church Leadership, Discernment, Doctrine, False Ministers, False prophets, False teaching, Fivefold Ministry, Leadership, Prophetic, Spirit Baptism, Spiritual Gifts, Supernatural Power of God
This is second part of two-part series aimed at demonstrating that there are distinct and vital differences between the nine Manifestation Gifts, aka, the Charismata or Gifts of the Spirit, enumerated in Scripture and the five Ministry Gifts also delineated in Scripture. I urge you to read Part 1 of this series to understand the foundation and framework we are working from in this part. The overall point is that there are indeed major differences between the gifts of the Spirit and the offices Jesus established as the Head of the Church through which to continue His own ministry on the Earth in the Church He is building in His absence and on His behalf until He returns to claim the Church as His Eternal Bride, thereby culminating both the Church itself as well as the Church Age.
by admin | Nov 15, 2019 | Apostasy, Apostolic, Cessation Theology, Deception, Doctrine, End-Times, False Ministers, False teaching, Featured, Fivefold Ministry, Prophetic, Spirit Baptism, Spiritual Gifts, Supernatural Power of God
Modern day Sadducees not only, “make utterly nothing of prophecy,” they also deny the reality of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This doctrine has produced spiritual morticians which have so effectively turned their churches into funeral parlors that even God is not welcome in them if He disturbs the dead. Even the thought of the disruption produced by the “rushing mighty wind” of the Holy Spirit’s presence alarms them.
by admin | Jun 28, 2018 | Charismatic Gifts, Revival, Spirit Baptism, Spiritual activity, Supernatural Power of God
With the phenomena associated with the “Toronto Blessing,” the Pensacola/ Brownsville revival, and the ministry of Rodney Howard-Browne, such as falling under the power of the Spirit, trembling, holy laughter, etc., people have tended to either completely accept or completely reject all such phenomena. However, when we study the history of the church, in particular the evangelical and holiness movements of the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, we see that many of these manifestations have occurred in these movements, but such phenomena were neither accepted out of hand, nor dismissed summarily.
