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

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ing that written word as inspired (although not on a par with the Bible). Noncharismatics tend to see this practice as undermining biblical rev elation. I see no problem with maintaining a personal file of significant prophecies. Whether for future or immediate reference, however, any prophecy should be subject to the biblical cri teria for judging a prophecy (see chapters 20-21). Cecil M. Robeck Jr. gives excellent insight on why circulating prophecies can become a dangerous practice. "The Gift of Prophecy and the All-Sufficiency of Scripture," Paraclete 13:1 (winter 1979), pp. 27-31. 21. I also feel a prophecy can be given on occasion to an individual, as Ananias to Saul (Acts 9:10-19). The text itself does not call this prophecy, but it seems to me to be so. 22. Some churches operate as if preach ing/teaching is the most significant gift. I could not verify such a claim with Scripture but do feel that the public worship of God and the presen tation of His Word should be given primary position in our church services. 23. I refer to 1 Corinthians 14. 26.Bill Hamon, Prophets and Personal Prophecy (Shippensburg, Pa.: Destiny Image, 1987), p. 57. 27. Harper, Prophecy, p. 19. 28. Grudem, Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament, p. 153. 29. See chapter 2, pp. 30-32, for more on this point. 30. This subject has already received some attention in chapters 2, 3 and 5. Also see chap ter 20. 31. See the practical discussion by Yocum, Prophecy, chapter 7. He focuses from a Catho lic charismatic viewpoint on the role of the Christian community in testing and forming prophets who can be trusted to speak the word of God. 32. Robeck, "Gift of Prophecy and the All Sufficiency," p. 30. 33. Houston, Prophecy, p. 38. 34. Pytches, Prophecy, p. 13. 35. Everett F. Harrison, "Romans," Expos itors Bible Commentary, Vol. 10, p. 130. 36. C. K. Barrett, The Epistle to the Romans (New York: Harper & Row, 1957), p. 238; Also, A. T. Robertson, Word Studies in the New Testament (Nashville: Broadman, 1931), Vol. IV, p. 403. 24. Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 33. 25. J. R. Williams, Era, pp. 26-27.

37. Ellison, Men Spake, p. 18. Nineveh was not destroyed, and we understand why because of the book of Jonah. Ellison also points out that the judgment of Tyre, Egypt and Babylon were all "suspended." 38. F. F. Bruce, in his foreword for Clifford Hill, Prophecy, p. xii. 39. Cecil M. Robeck Jr., "The Gift of Prophecy in Acts and Paul, Part II," Studia Bib lica et Theologica 2 (October 1975), p. 54. 40. Stephen Clark, Spiritual Gifts (Pecos, N.M.: Dove, 1969), pp. 18-19. 41. Green, Holy Spirit, p. 170. 42. J. R. Williams, Era, pp. 27-28. 43. Boring, Continuing Voice, p. 38. 44. David Hill, New Testament Prophecy, pp. 8-9. 1. Two scholarly, well-done yet contrasting books about the Holy Spirit and initiation into the early Church are James D. G. Dunn's Bap tism in the Holy Spirit (Philadelphia: Westmin ster, 1970), and a strong but cordial "Pente costal" critique of Dunn's book by Howard M. Ervin, Conversion-Initiation and the Baptism in the Holy Spirit (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1984). 2. See Ernest Gentile, Worship God! Explor ing the Dynamics of Psalmic Worship (Portland: BT Publishing, 1994), chapter 33, "Gathering the Called-Out Ones." 3.Charismatic authors use various terms and categories (not always arranged the same) to describe prophetic events: "realms" (Schoch, Damazio); "channels" (Hamon); "functions" (C. Hill); "degrees of prophetic inspiration" (Conner); "levels" (Blomgren, Bickle, Cooke, Joyner); "manifestations" (Howells). 4. Gentile, Worship God!, pp. 154-155; Jack Hayford, Worship His Majesty (Waco: Word, 1987), p. 150. 5. Green, I Believe, p. 170. 6. Through the years I have appreciated the insights of a book (now unfortunately out of print) by Seeley D. Kinne, The Prophetic State, republished by Wings of Healing, 1950. 7. Aune, Prophecy in Early Christianity, p. 190. Also see Ralph P. Martin's comments on 1 Thessalonians 5, which support the thesis that prophecy was a gift exercised within the context of congregational worship. Worship in 397. Chapter 11: Channels of Prophetic Ex pression in the Church