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

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36.Robeck, "Gift of Prophecy," p.738. Taken from Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements by StanleyM.Burgess, Gary B.McGee andPatrickH.Alexander.Copy right© 1988 by Stanley M.Burgess,Gary B. McGee and Patrick H.Alexander.Used by per mission of Zondervan Publishing House. Chapter 22: Suggestions for Public Services 1.It is amazing how worshiping people often equatesound with the anointing of the Spirit.This whole experience was an education for us.We learned to worship in spite of sound and sun and architectural differences,and to realize that the Holy Spirit is present in spite of bad acoustics. Near the time we left that building three years later,we had overcome our problems and visitors commented on the beautiful praise and worship that filled the sanctuary! Incidentally,we got to like the Lutheran prayer altar so much that we put the same style into our new sanctuary. 2. Presbytery is the plural of presbyter, the term used of an elder in the early Church.Every local church should have its regular presbytery team of leaders who sometimes function pro phetically.But in our use,the presbyters are guest ministers who do not know the people,thereby enhancing the prophetic dimension. 3.I am aware that there has been much abuse of prophecy.Some years ago in southern California,a church group went overboard in prophecy, holding presbytery-type meetings each week and using their own in-house prophets.The approachbecameso focusedand inclusive that people were told not to make sim ple decisions of life without prophetic confir mation.I abhor this approach.This particular group got to the point of laying hands on peo ple's heads and publicly declaring so-called rev elations based on the bumps they felt on their heads! Delusion unchecked only becomes more confusing.Glenn Foster has said that this indi cates people have surrendered "the leadership of the Holy Spirit in their lives to the prophet." Purpose and Use, p. 152. 4.Ibid.,p.93. 5.For further information on prophetic pres bytery,see my 25-page booklet, The Prophetic Presbytery in the Local Church (Portland: BT Publishing, 1990). Also, David Blomgren, Prophetic Gatherings. 6.Paul Cain as quoted by Mike Bickle, Growing, p. 124.

7.Larry Randolph, User Friendly Prophecy (Century City,Calif.: Cherith,1995),p.205. 8.David Pytches, Prophecy, p. 126. Chapter 23: Insights on How to Prophesy 1.Blomgren, Prophetic Gatherings, p. 43. Also,note these words of W.A.C.Rowe: "It should be realized that at no time is the 'gifted' person deprived of his consciousness and forced to act in a manner generally understood of spir itualist mediums.At no point does the person lose control of himself and he must not consider himself immune from direction,instruction and discipline as to his activity and demeanour." One Lord, p. 181. 2.Hayford, Spiritual Language, p. 121. 3.Jacobs, Voice, p. 86. 4.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 117. 5.Randolph, Prophecy, p. 87. 6.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 136. 7.Bickle, Growing, p. 134. 8.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 135. 9.Randolph, Prophecy, p. 181. 10.Pytches, Prophecy, p. 1. 11.Deere, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, p. 65. 16.Graham Houston comments, "If prophetic claims appear to be couched in absolutely authoritative terms,as the first-per son terminology tends to suggest,there seems to be no room for weighing what is said ... which is simply not compatible with what Paul taught the Corinthians." Prophecy, p. 174. 17.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 15. 18.George Mallone, Arming for Spiritual Warfare (Leicester,U.K.: IVP,1991),chapter 9, quoted by Pytches, Prophecy, p. 94. 19.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 82. 20. Bill Hamon says, "I have found that romance,love,and marriage are the most dan gerous areas for receiving personal prophecies from others." Prophets and Personal Prophecy, p. 78. 21.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 80. 22.This section taken from Ernest B.Gen tile, Position Paper on the Prophetic Ministry (Portland: Ministers Fellowship International, 1995),p.14. 12.Foster, Purpose and Use, p. 125. 13.Howells, Prophecy, lesson 4,p.4. 14.Bickle, Growing, p. 105. 15.Cooke, Prophetic Gifting, p. 188.

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