Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 04118. Spiritual impartation is the phrase charismatic circles use so often that many Christians employ it without ever pausing to ask whether it describes something the Bible actually teaches. The idea, in its simplest form, is that a spiritual gift, an anointing, or a measure of the Spirit’s power can be transferred from one…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4156. The Toronto Blessing is the name given to a wave of unusual religious phenomena that began in 1994 at a church near Toronto airport and spread to thousands of congregations across the world. For a few years it was almost impossible to be part of charismatic church life in Britain without encountering it…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04038. Being drunk in the Spirit describes a state, claimed in some charismatic meetings, in which believers stagger, slur their words, laugh uncontrollably, or behave as though intoxicated, all of it attributed to an overwhelming dose of the Spirit’s presence. It became widely known through the Toronto Blessing and similar movements of the 1990s,…