“The triune communion is marked by an ever-growing wonderment and surprise. Consequently, wonderment and surprise characterize the life of the church which participates in the triune life through the indwelling Spirit. It seems that the early Pentecostals had a profound instinctive grasp of this truth. It seems that the early Pentecostals had a profound instinctive grasp of this truth. They nad a persistent urge to look for ‘new revelations’ because they were very sure that ‘God is doing a new thing’ (Isa. 43.19). The Spirit’s own ‘excess’ and overwhelming presence creates a heightened expectation for ‘more’. It was a risky move, espeicaly when new revelation was not adequately grounded in the Great Tradition . . . but it was not entirely groundless since the Spirit Jesus promised to send ‘will tell you more what is yet to come’ (Jn 16.13).” Simon Chan, Pentecostal Ecclesiology: An Essay on the Development of Doctrine. JPTS, 38 (Dorset, UK: Deo Publishing, 2011), p. 90.
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