Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

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cussed: the mystical prophet-healer William Marrion Branham. Again, insights will be drawn to help us in our quest for prophetic balance in the Church.

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Prophecy is not restricted to a few men and women in primitive Chris tianity....It is a specific mark of the age of fulfillment that the Spirit does not only lay hold of individuals, but that all members of the eschatological community without distinction are called to prophesy. 37 Gerhard Friedrich The New Testament balance that all can prophesy, yet some are called to be prophets, needs to be kept in view today.The mantle of prophecy on one person does not preclude other believers from exercising a gift of prophecy.In fact, it is the free access of all to prophesy which confirms the ability of any particular prophet. 38 George Mallone The prophet can err.Therefore he or she must be open to correction by the rest of the Body.True prophets are willing for this.They want their words to be tested, and when they are wrong they will admit it.They want their prophecies to be confirmed by the Word of God and by the body as a whole. 39 C.Peter Wagner A view of the gifts of the Spirit contained in a slogan that they are "a hundred per cent miraculous " has obtained considerable acceptance in some quarters.We are told that "there is no element of the natural in them at all." This is the pardonable language of enthusiasm for enforcing the truth that there is a supernatural element in spiritual gifts, and we can respect it as such.But it will not do as a statement to cover all the facts.We need a more balanced view.If we do not achieve it we shall perpetuate the extremes that have marred the Pentecostal testimony from its beginning.Indeed, in that way lies considerable danger. 40 Donald Gee

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