How do the varied patterns of Spirit-reception in Acts relate to water baptism?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04111 Few topics in practical Christian theology generate more pastoral confusion than the relationship between water baptism and Spirit baptism. Acts appears to offer contradictory evidence: Samaritans were baptised in water before the Spirit came; Cornelius and his household received the Spirit before any water was applied; the Ephesian disciples received the Spirit only…