I just finished this book: Surprised by the Power of the Spirit: Discovering How God Speaks and Heals Today, by Jack Deere, pub. 1993 ($5.98 Kindle, $0.01 plus shipping for used hard copies). I really enjoyed the book, and I found it, for the most part, very convincing. It is a good mixture of personal stories and careful biblical interpretation. I found it satisfying intellectually and--equally valuable--found that it stirred my hunger to know God better. If you wonder whether the miraculous gifts of the Spirit are for today, this will be very helpful. Deere responds to, among many others, John MacArthur, often citing his book Charismatic Chaos. (I wonder what more current interchanges they might have had.) Now I hope to read the sequel, Surprised by the Voice of God. Some endorsements: * Wayne Grudem: This is the most persuasive answer I have ever read to the objections of people who say that miraculous gifts like healing and prophesy are not for today. * Gordon Fee: Here is a timely book, which should cause a degree of (good) discomfort to Pentecostals and cessationists alike, calling the former out of their smugness and Spirit-talk that is all too often without experienced reality, and to the latter to recognize that their case is predicated almost altogether on their *experience*--or lack thereof--of Spirit life. * Bruce Waltke: This book is a real barn burner... This book calls for a response, one way or the other, not a reaction.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:04:36 +0000
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