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

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aced' by the others in the community...." The First Epistle, p.597.James D.G.Dunn feels that our passage "is best understood as an evalua tion,an investigating,a testing,a weighing of the prophetic utterance by the rest (of the assem bly or of the prophets) to determine both its source as to inspiration and its significance for the assembly .... " Jesus, p. 234. 21. Dunn,Jesus, p.233; Aune, Prophecy in Early Christianity, p.223; Rowe, One Lord, p. 173. 22.It is appropriate to use basic judging cri teria from the Old and New Testaments since the general principles apply to prophecy in gen eral and are constant through both Testaments. 23.Ruthven,"A Place for Prophecy?",p.14. 24.David Hill, "Reports of the Work Groups," Prophetic Vocation, p. 232. 25.John Blattner,"Pitfalls of Prophecy and How to Avoid Them," Equipping the Saints 3:4 (fall 1989),p.19. 26.Houston, Prophecy, p. 201. 27. Ulf Ekman, The Prophetic Ministry (Minneapolis: Word of Life,1990),p.210. 28.Alex Buchanan, Explaining Prophecy (Chichester, West Sussex: Sovereign World, 1991),p.43. 29.Barrett, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 281. 30.Robeck,"Gift of Prophecy," p.733. Dic tionary ofPentecostal and Charismatic Move ments by Stanley M.Burgess,Gary B.McGee and Patrick H.Alexander.Copyright © 1988 by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H.Alexander.Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. 31.Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History (Grand Rapids: Baker,1981),p.86. 32.A question asked by David Watson and quoted by Green, I Believe, p. 189. 33.Kydd, Charismatic Gifts, p. 2. 34.Ibid.,pp.6-11; The Didache 11:4-6,12. 35.Yocum, Prophecy, p. 63. 36.Mallone, Controversial Gifts, p. 44. 37. Cecil M. Robeck Jr. in an interview, "David Watson on Spiritual Gifts," Theology, News & Notes (June 1987),pp.16,29. 38.Brant, How to Test, p. 142. 39.James Ryle, Hippo in the Garden (Orlando: Creation House,1993),p.254. 40.See chapter 22 of this book. 41.Much has been said about the so-called ecstatic state of a biblical prophet.See chapter 5 for my thoughts on the subject.Neither Old nor New Testament prophets were out of con 407.

in 1974 as quoted in McDonnell, Presence, Vol.III,p.59. 5.The church people were apparently wrong in the way they were interpreting the prophetic messages about Paul's imprisonment,and the apostle had to set them straight.He continued on to Jerusalem,feeling that the prophecy gave general information and was not directive in nature.Acts 21:11-14. 6.J.R.Williams, Era, p. 29. 7.CecilM.Robeck Jr.,"How Do You Judge a Prophetic Utterance?" Paraclete 11:2 (spring 1977),p.13. 8. Fee, Empowering Presence, p. 62. 9.Cooke, Prophetic Gifting, p. 151. 10.Pytches, Prophecy, pp.107-108. 11.Bishop Pytches says: "It would be so sat isfying and so satisfactory at this stage to be able to set out a fool-proof biblical check-list for any one to apply at any time.Unfortunately it does not work like that.It is never so simple." Thun dered, p. 84. 14.Robeck,"Prophetic Utterance," p.12. 15.Three helpful sources,for instance,are: Conner, Today's Prophets, pp.26-29; Clifford Hill, Prophecy, chapter 13; and "Introducing Prophetic Ministry," Equipping the Saints (fall 1989,Vol.3,No.4),John Wimber,pub.,Kevin Springer,ed. 16.I appreciate in particular two articles by Cecil M. Robeck Jr. In the first, "Prophetic Utterance" (pp. 12-16), he suggests chat prophetic problems can be related to three areas. From his good suggestions,I enlarged to six areas. Also, note "Prophetic Authority," pp.4-10. 17.This is common teaching in charismatic and Pentecostal circles.See,for instance,Rox anne Brant, How to Test: Prophecy, Preaching, Guidance (O'Brien,Fla.: Roxanne Brant Min istries, 1981), p. 26££. Conner, Church in the New Testament, p. 167. 18.Rowe, One Lord, p. 173. 19.David Aune makes this interesting com ment: "The most appropriate English transla tion for both the noun in 1 Cor.12:10 and the verb in 1 Cor.14:29 is 'evaluation' and 'evalu ate' respectively,since the term combines the notions of discrimination,interpretation,and examination in a suitably ambiguous way." Prophecy in Early Christianity, p. 221. 20.Fee feels that spirits refers "to the prophetic utterances that need to be 'differenti 12.Dunn,"New Wine," p.7. 13.Pytches, Thundered, p. xiv.