Pentecostals and Other Evangelicals: We Need Each Other
Perhaps Pentecostal emphasis on the Spirit could combine with evangelical emphasis on the Word. With enough humility, Pentecostals and other evangelicals may and sometimes do learn much from one...
View ArticleEmpowered for a Missional Reading of Scripture
Jesus’s promise of the Spirit for Pentecost was a promise of empowerment for mission (Luke 24:48-49; Acts 1:8). Luke reveals how pivotal this empowerment is by underlining its necessity in both his...
View ArticleRevival is Part of the Christian Life
If God poured out the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, then much of what we envision as “revival” is simply part of the normal Christian life. It is not the sole possession of one part of the body of...
View ArticleThe Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us: John 16
Jesus had been telling his disciples that the Spirit would further explain the teachings he had given them – not make up new things that had little to do with the Jesus they had known (1 John 4:2-6),...
View ArticleThe Spirit as a divine person — John 14:16-17, 26
Christians honor God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yet we may not always recognize the biblical foundations for what we believe. That the Father is God goes without saying. That Jesus is divine in...
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