2 Responses to Shaking in the Holy Spirit – The Brownsville Revival

1. Sticksbrady says:

   April 30, 2024 at 1:45 am

   Hey John, some critics would use the argument of “exegeting the text” as a way of being against the shakings. some would say “even though there were shaking to the Bible, but they didn’t fell backwards.” It’s like they are demanding specific details like specific verses of people fall backwards. And when defenders using scripture like Jeremiah 23:9 2 Chronicles 5:14 or using Acts 8:17 where it says “Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost,” as a biblical premise, for the Holy Spirit causing people to shake, critics would say that “your adding or taking away from the Bible or your putting your own spin on it.” These objections to me, comes from the logic fallacy called argument from silence. So my first question is what is the best response to these objections and number two when it comes to answering for shaking should we the doctrine of sola scriptura or the doctrine of Prima Scriptura?

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   • The Town Crier Outlet says:

     April 30, 2024 at 10:18 am

     1. Most of these types of objections are coming from “Counterfeit Revival” by Hank Hanegraaff. My response would be: “Thanks for your concerns and everything, but it just seems to me like you’re straining out a gnat but swallowing a camel (Matt. 23:24). Your spiritual blindness is preventing you from seeing the activity of the Holy Spirit here. Notice how the people so affected are also saying that they are experiencing and feeling the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23). But you’re getting hung up on things like if their arms are shaking or if their bodies fall down in a certain direction. Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks at the heart (1 Sam. 16:7). It seems to me that you are judging this merely from a physical or natural point of view; and not from a spiritual or supernatural point of view. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:14, KJV). Also take a look at “Catch the Fire” by Guy Chevreau. It explains that shaking and things like this also happened under the preaching of John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, and George Whitefield.”

     2. I would toss out Sola Scriptura under all circumstances, because it is inconsistent even among those who proclaim it. Those who say they rely and believe in the “Bible only” also believe in the Westminster Confession, Banner of Truth books, and Bible commentaries. Prima Scriptura is the most long-standing position of the Church at large. And in practice its still the only position that truly works even among the Reformed crowd. So yes, the Holy Spirit manifestations should be accepted under the idea of Prima Scriptura. The sixty-six books of the Bible should be used to judge, reject, or verify the supernatural, but nobody has a right to reject the supernatural and just sit down in an armchair and read the Bible only. God has bigger plans for the Church than that.

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