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Ive loved this line of thinking since I began the process of Pentecostal theologizing. It holds increasing relevance to us today. It is a quote from J.W. Jones in Steve Lands book Pentecostal Spirituality (a seminal book to be sure): The Spirit inspires the Word and builds up the community; the Word enables us to understand our experience of the Spirit and teaches us the form of our common life; the community forms the context in which the Word is understood and the Spirit is encountered. Using the Bible to tear down rather than build up the church, using the church to squelch the Spirit, using the Spirit as a pretext to go beyond the perimeters of the Gospel have destroyed the foundations of Christianity in the modern world more than any external attacks by atheists and skeptics.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:56:42 +0000

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