Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 4065 Every believer in Christ has received at least one spiritual gift. This is not an aspiration or a target to aim for — it is a statement of fact grounded in the plain teaching of the New Testament. “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good” (1 Corinthians…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04117 If you have spent any time in charismatic circles you will almost certainly have encountered the idea that God has been moving in successive waves of the Spirit across the twentieth century, each building on the last and preparing the church for what comes next. The language of a “Third Wave” of the…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 04118 The word “impartation” has become so standard in charismatic vocabulary that many Christians use it without pausing to ask whether it describes something the Bible actually teaches. The idea is deceptively simple: that a spiritual gift, anointing, or measure of the Spirit’s power can be transferred from one person to another through the…
Reading Time: 14 minutesQuestion 1008 The question of dreams, visions, and prophecy today generates considerable confusion and division in the church. Does God still speak through these means? Should Christians expect or seek these experiences? The answer requires careful biblical thinking that avoids two dangerous extremes: rigidly denying God can work beyond our categories, or elevating subjective experiences…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 4000 If you have spent any time in theological study, you have almost certainly encountered words ending in -logy: theology, Christology, eschatology. Pneumatology is one of these, and it refers specifically to the systematic study of the Holy Spirit. The word itself comes from the Greek pneuma (πνεῦμα), meaning breath, wind, or spirit, and…