IF Your baptist church changed from ceasing to still for today Gifts Wld You depart?

I agree

That was not the whole of their role. But no one today would qualify anyhow.

This could only be true if it were true of every single person in the church. And I do not believe that to be the case.

 

Same here!

 

So in other words you dont feel that HS Gifts & Visitations actually exist.....is that what your saying?

If it is then could you explain to me all those testimonials of Revivals & of men like Whitefield & Moody & Wesley?

 

yes there I would agree.

 

I sincerely hope that God blesses you to get a church planted up there. I will be praying to that end. I appreciate your kind words and I hope you have a blessed weekend in the Lord.

Peace and Prayers

Jeff

 

Thanks, and you as well.

I understand that we ought always to be open to instruction through the Word and enlightening by the Holy Spirit. There are a few issues, particularly in eschatology where my official position is "this is where I am right now. I might not be there tomorrow."

I suppose the gifts of the Spirit fall into that category. Right now, I believe that God may allow a missionary to speak in a language he's never learned (as on the day of Pentecost). I believe God can supernaturally heal someone without the aid of doctors or medicines. I have seen it happen, unilaterally without using any human.

I also believe that if one has the gift of healing, he has it all the time, and that divine healing is not dependent on the faith of the one who is healed, nor upon the faith of the one who supposedly has the gift.

That said, I do not believe all the gifts are operational as they were in apostolic times.

Now, on some other issues, my mind is made up and I don't plan to change. I will always believe salvation is through repentance and faith, baptism is for believers only by immersion, and Jesus is coming again.

But the older I get, the less set in my ways I am about stuff I was pretty rigid about in you younger days.