The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today
May it be that none of us shall fail to receive what God has so generously promised.
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Notes
1 Karl Barth in his Evangelical Theology: An Introduction (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963): Chapter 5, on “The Spirit,” writes of how “a foolish church presupposes his presence and action in its own existence, in its offices and sacraments, ordinations, consecrations and absolutions . . a presupposed Spirit is certainly not the Holy Spirit” (p. 58). Thereafter Barth adds: “Only where the Spirit is sighed. cried, and prayed for does he become present and newly active.” So it is with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
2 Professor Hendrikus Berkhof in his book, The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1964) speaks in one place of a work of the Holy Spirit “beyond justification and sanctification,” namely, being “filled with the Holy Spirit,” to which “official theology” has paid little attention (p. 85). He thereupon devotes a few pages (pp. 85-92) to the subject, prefacing his remarks by saying, “I am aware of the fact that I set foot on an unexplored field and that my thoughts here . . . must be considered as preliminary and needing correction by others” (p. 85). This present book, as well as my two earlier ones, The Era of the Spirit and The Pentecostal Reality, are attempts to open up this “unexplored field.”
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