A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance
Table of Contents
1 Reports of Signs and Wonders
2 Stating the Question Precisely
3 Miracle-workers Sent from God
4 Is Scripture Complete?
5 Gifts in the Early Church
6 Why Christians Seek the ‘Gifts’
7 Baptism with the Spirit
8 When the Spirit Comes
9 Perplexing Experience
10 A Positive Word
11 The Holy Spirit and Revival
Appendix – The Testimony of the Church
Selected Quotes
- ‘Charismatic’ enthusiasts, however, are not merely claiming that God is doing miracles in the twentieth century. They are asserting that some twentieth-century men have power to perform miracles. (7)
- Let there be no mistaking the central thrust of the ‘charismatic revival’; it is offering the church a new approach to authority and absolute truth. (19)
- I know that some Pentecostal leaders would heartily deny that contemporary revelations are infallible truth to be equated with Scripture in their authority, but it is the essential impression necessarily conveyed by any claim to the ‘gifts’. (22)
- All modern prophecy is spurious! God’s truth has come to us in a fixed and finished objective revelation. (31)
- Inward graces or fruits of the Spirit, not outward displays of gifts, are the signs of spirituality. (56)
- In our biblical desire for revival, we must refuse to seek any experience which proposes to eliminate our natural weakness. God did not spread the gospel of Christ through the world by means of extrovert personalities. Christ did not choose apostles for their native strength of character. (66)
- Second-work-of-grace theories simply do not fit the biblical data on a man’s conversion which brings with it the baptism with the Spirit. (82)
- Spirit and truth are always found together. The Spirit’s workings are always attended with doctrinal content in the mind (1 Cor. 12:1-3) and self-control (1 Cor. 14:28-32).
- Every true convert to Christ is baptized with the Holy Spirit…In his worst moments, the child of God remains baptized with the Holy Spirit. At her lowest seasons, the true church is distinguished by the indwelling presence of God the Holy Spirit. (113)
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SIGNS OF THE APOSTLES: OBSERVATIONS ON PENTACOSTALISM OLD AND NEW, by Walter J. Chantry