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

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Prophecy," Westminster Theological Journal 56 (1994), p. 243. 10. Stanley M. Burgess deals with the tension between prophecy and form in a fine study of the Church from the end of the first century A.D. to the end of the fifth century. The Spirit and the Church: Antiquity (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrick son, 1984). Also see chapter 15 in this book. 11. See M. Eugene Boring, The Continuing Voice ofJesus: Christian Prophecy & the Gospel Tradition (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1991), chapter 1. Also see Aune, Prophecy in Early Christianity, chapter 9, and "Christian Prophecy and the Sayings ofJesus," New Testa ment Studies 29 (1982), pp. 104-112. 12. See Clifford Hill, Prophecy, pp. 160-185. Also his journal article "On the Evidence for the Creative Role of Christian Prophets," New Testament Studies 20 (1973-1974), pp. 262-274. 13. Boring, Continuing Voice, p. 20. 14. See the challenging testimonial critique of the historical-critical method by Eta Linne mann, a reputable scholar who studied under Bultmann and other German scholars: Histori cal Criticism of the Bible: Methodology or Ide ology? (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990). 15. F. David Farnell, "When Will the Gift of Prophecy Cease?" Bibliotheca Sacra 150 (April-June 1993), p. 171. 16. Refer to chapter 14 where I give my basic refutation of the five major arguments for the cessation of prophecy and the interpretation of the five major Bible passages used for the sup port of cessationism. 17. C. F. D. Moule comments that Revela tion 19:10 "seems . . . to identify the testimony borne byJesus himself as 'the concern or burden of the Spirit who inspired prophecy.' . . . There is strong evidence for taking 'ofJesus' as a sub jectivegenitive: it is not 'witness toJesus' but 'the witness borne byJesus."' The Holy Spirit (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), p. 63. 18. Rick Joyner, The Prophetic Ministry (Charlotte, N.C.: MorningStar, 1997), p. 49. 19. Wayne A. Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today (Wheaton: Crossway, 1988). The book represents a popu larized and expanded edition of Grudem's ear lier work, The Gift of Prophecy in 1 Corinthians (Lanham, Md.: University Press, 1982), which in turn is a publishable edition of his doctoral dissertation of the same title (Cambridge: Cam bridge University, 1978). 8 388

20. F. David Farnell, "Is the Gift of Prophecy for Today?" (given in 4 parts), Bibliotheca Sacra 149 (1992),July-September, pp. 277-303; 149 (1992), October-December, pp. 387-410; 150 (1993),January-March,pp. 62-88; 150 (1993), April-June, pp. 171-202. This is probably the most detailed critique of Grudem given by a cessationist. 21.lbid., 149 (1992),July-September, p. 277. 22. Grudem, Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament, p. 14. 23. That is, the desire to protect the prophetic integrity of the Bible by acknowledg ing only the validity of prophecy in the Church that produced Scripture. 24. Gordon D. Fee, God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1994), p. 892. 25. Perhaps we should contend at the same time for one hundred percent accuracy in preaching! 26.Joyner, Prophetic Ministry, pp. 117-118. 27. Scripture itself seems to take in stride cer tain prophecy that was not fulfilled verbatim and could be classified as inspired or Spirit-quick ened but not God-breathed or inscripturated. Agabus' "thus saith the Spirit" prophecy was ful filled in meaning but not in minute detail of actual words used (see Acts 21:11, 33). 28. Some interesting references are Bruce Yocum's chapter 1, "A BriefHistory of Christian Prophecy," Prophecy; Jack Deere's chapter 5, "Presbyterian Prophets" (examples from A.D. 1500s and 1600s), Surprised by the Voice of God (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996); David Pytches' chapter 15, "Prophecy during the Dark Ages," and his chapters 16-19, which talk about the French prophets (A.D. 1500-1600), the Ger man prophets (1500s), the Ranters (1500-1700) and the Quakers (1600s), Prophecy in the Local Church: A Practical Handbook and Historical Overview (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993). 29. For the Hebrew prophets see EdwardJ. Young, My Servants the Prophets (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952), chapter 1 and appen dix. See also Christopher Forbes' impressive work Prophecy and Inspired Speech: In Early Christianity and Its Hellenistic Environment (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1997 reprint), an excellent, scholarly examination of the Hel lenistic evidence that clearly shows there are "no compelling parallels" between Christian glosso lalia or prophecy and Hellenistic ecstatic religion. 30. Ronald A. N. Kydd, Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church: An Exploration into the