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

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God's Attitude," Westminster TheologicalJour nal 41:2 (spring 1979), pp. 387, 391. 38. Ibid., p. 390. 39. Forbes, Prophecy and Inspired Speech, p. 181. 40.J. Rodman Williams, Renewal Theol ogy: Systematic Theology from a Charismatic Perspective (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990), Vol. 2, p. 381. 41. Forbes, Prophecy and Inspired Speech, p. 179. 42. See Gentile, Worship God!, chapter 33, "Gathering the Called-Out Ones." 43. One reason many of the older Pente costal groups had such long public utterances of tongues, followed by long interpretations, was to keep from violating the supposed prin ciple that a speaker could not speak out in tongues more than a few times. 44. Fee, Empowering Presence, p. 251. 45. Montague, Holy Spirit, p. 181. 46. Fee, The First Epistle, pp. 694-695. Also note the confirmation by Trevor Chandler, The Functioning Church (Brisbane, Australia: C. L. Publishing, 1984), pp. 91-92. Wayne Grudem says: "Paul calls anyone who prophesies a prophetes in 14:32." Gift of Prophecy in 1 Cor inthians, p. 232. 47. Williams, Renewal Theology, p. 381. 48. I am convinced that Paul was a happy man, boisterous in his praise of God. He did have ecstatic experiences, such as recorded in 2 Cor inthians 12:1-10, yet maintains the importance of controlled prophetic presentations in the church service. In regard to renewal manifesta tions, scholars and mainline church members come from traditions of more subdued worship forms and denominational parameters. In con trast, today's amoral college graduates, biblically void youth and TV generation addicts search des perately for something that will satisfy.Youth go to rock concerts and scream out their most urgent longings and needs. When such ones come into God's house, they, like the Corinthians of old, must encounter God. These acute needs must be met head-on, and when this happens there are bound to be manifestations-some exteme--that might upset the sensitivities of today's mainline church members. 49. Hayford, Spiritual Language, p. 74. 50. Bennett, "Gifts of the Holy Spirit," pp. 28-29. 51. Dunn, "New Wine," p. 7. 52. Fee, The First Epistle, p. 676.

Chapter 14: Did Prophecy Cease-or Does It Continue? 1. The best article I have seen refuting ces sationism is by Jack Deere, "Anatomy of a Deception," MorningStar Journal 4:2 (1994), pp. 39--49. He is a former associate professor of Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary. Also see the article by Jon Ruthven, "A Place for Prophecy?", Paraclete 6:2 (spring 1972), pp. 8-14. 2. Charles C. Ryrie, The Holy Spirit (Chicago: Moody, 1965), p. 86. 3. Such as 1 Corinthians 12-14; Romans 12; Ephesians 4. 4. The best statement I have seen by a ces sationist is the four-part series of articles in Bib liotheca Sacra (a journal published by Dallas Theological Seminary) by F. David Farnell. See my footnote 20, chapter 2. 5. Deere, "Anatomy," p. 42. 6. To teleion is translated variously "that which is perfect" (KJV, NKJV), "perfection" (Williams, NIV, JB), "wholeness" (NEB), "the complete" (Phillips). F. David Farnell prefers "mature" or "complete." "Gift of Prophecy," 150 (April-June 1993), p. 192. 7. Those of us who believe this are in good scholarly company-e.g., F. F. Bruce, C. K. Bar rett, Gordon D. Fee, H. Conzelman and Michael Harper, to name a few. 8. See the interesting article by R. Fowler White, "Richard Gaffin and Wayne Grudem on 1 Cor 13:10: A Comparison of Cessationist and Noncessationist Argumentation," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 35/2 (June 1992), pp. 173-181. 9. See, for example, Merrill F. Unger, The Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit (Chicago: Moody, 1974), pp. 141-142. 10. Farnell, "Gift of Prophecy," 150 (April-June 1993), p. 192. 11. Ibid., p. 193. 12. Deere, "Anatomy," pp. 42--43. 13. Farnell, "Gift of Prophecy," p. 190. 14. Ibid., p. 171. 15. Robert L. Thomas, "Prophecy Redis covered? A Review of the Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today," Bibliotheca Sacra 149 (January-March 1992), p. 95. 16. Cecil M. Robeck Jr., "Ecclesiastical Authority and the Power of the Spirit," Para clete (summer 1978), p. 17. 17. Harper, Prophecy, p. 7. 401.