Baptized in the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology by Frank D. Macchia
Baptized in the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology Frank D. Macchia ebook
Page: 304
Format: pdf
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310252368
I find this modern 'Third Wave' theology far too simplistic and just as unconvincing as the older Pentecostal theology, and pastorally quite unhelpful. The second describes the absence of the Holy Spirit in three core narratives that could be argued as constituting the theological charter for Mormonism as a theological system, viz., the Heavenly Council with its Plan of Salvation, The Gethsemane experience of Christ with its work of Atonement, and The First Vision with its His Spirit will only cease to engage with a person if that individual has gone on into baptism and reception of the Spirit gift and then apostatized. Restoration theology gave birth to Pentecostalism when it taught that only a new band of Spirit-filled Christians would be effective in winning the world before Christ's return. Pentecostals regard speaking in tongues to be the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Pentecostalism has a predisposition towards elitism built into its theology. John Stott here), and I'm trying to draw out what those shibboleths are, and ask whether they're valid. Same as being regenerated by the Holy Spirit. For example, are we simply giving them what they Have we perhaps unintentionally restricted the work of the Holy Spirit by focusing almost exclusively on Spirit baptism as a personal and private experience to the neglect of the Spirit's global and cosmic work? Could Pentecostalism be catering to the contemporary cultural quest for a spiritual experience by promoting extravagant divine encounters as the normative trajectory of Christianity? That's the whole point; many of us are in the habit of saying who is and isn't baptised in the Spirit (note the comments on e.g. Seymour led the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, and from that time it spread rapidly across the United States and the world. Now Pentecostalism's basic theology of Spirit-baptism insists that only those having a second-stage experience are fully empowered for Christian service. Introduction to Pentecostal Doctrine provides an examination of the four cardinal doctrines of the Assemblies of God: salvation, baptism in the Holy Spirit, healing, and the second Coming of Christ.