"With a perversity as pathetic as it is impoverishing, we have become preoccupied today with the extraordinary, sporadic, nonuniversal, ministries of the Spirit to the neglect of the ordinary, general ones. Thus, we show a great deal more interest in the gifts of healing and tongues-gifts of which, Paul pointed out, not all Christians are meant to partake anyway (1 Cor 12:28-30)-than in the Spirit's ordinary work of giving peace, joy, hope and love, through the shedding abroad in our hearts of knowledge of love of God." -J.I. Packer (Knowing God, 118)
Monday, August 4, 2008
Limiting the Spirit to the Extraordinary
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