Charisma S Bible Handbook On The Holy Spirit

A respected charismatic journalist critiques the charismatic renewal, recent and past, from a balanced biblical perspective to understand mistakes and identify positive role models.

Secularism and unbelief threaten today to sweep away all Christian influence in society and blind people to eternal salvation in Christ. This aggressive agenda is gaining ground everywhere: in education, politics, medicine--even marriage and family. The urgency of this hour demands more than a gospel of words only. It calls for a demonstration of power, as seen in Acts 4:33: "With great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus" (NKJV). God has provided us with His charismata, or "divine endowments" of His Holy Spirit, to make us effective witnesses of His power amid this crooked and perverse generation. Charismata: The Power and the Witness will show you how to receive the power of the Holy Spirit--and how to begin changing the eternal destinies of people everywhere. God would have each of us be a witness of His power in this crucial hour. Charismata: The Power and the Witness will equip you to demonstrate the presence of the Holy Spirit in your daily life.

This book is a scripturally balanced look at the person and work of the Holy Spirit. It will equip the reader to avoid the extremes surrounding the subject of the Holy Spirit and it will arm the reader with solid biblical teaching. Charisma Versus Charismania identifies who the Holy Spirit is and describes His proper work in the world, the church, and the life of the believer. We do not ask you to blindly accept all the premises written within this book, but we do encourage you to search the Scriptures and to see if these things are so. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Pastor Chuck believed that the Holy Spirit indeed does work in the lives of Christians today and he offers a sane, scriptural approach that will encourage all believers to look to the Holy Spirit for guidance.

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Noted Bible scholar Merrill Unger traces the doctrine of the baptism of the Spirit through the New Testament. In the final two chapters he puts the doctrine into its proper place with respect to spiritual gifts and the power for Christian living.