Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us? –Luke 24:32
It was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, and our pains that He carried. –Isaiah 53:4 (NASB)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. –1 Corinthians 13:4-6
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. –Isaiah 8:20 (KJV)
To one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. –1 Corinthians 12:8-10 (NKJV)
The disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. –Mark 16:20
If you love Me, keep My commandments. –Jesus in John 14:15 (NKJV)
I was fully convinced of what I had long suspected, 1. That the Montanists, in the second and third centuries, were real, Scriptural Christians; and, 2. that the grand reason why the miraculous gifts were so soon withdrawn, was not only that faith and holiness were well nigh lost; but that dry, formal, orthodox men began even then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves, and to decry them all as either madness or imposture. –John Wesley, Journal, August 15, 1750
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Making two possibilities a reality
Predicting the future of things we all know
Fighting off the diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries
Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our mother earth
Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our mother earth
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our mother earth
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Science has failed our mother earth
–System of a Down, “Science”–
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Dr. Dojcin Zivadinovic, “Wesley and Charisma: An Analysis of John Wesley’s View of Spiritual Gifts,” in Andrews University Seminary Student Journal, Volume 1, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 53-71.
Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994), pp. 210-211, 335.
Dr. Henry Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (Epworth Press, 1989), pp. 420-436.
Dr. Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).
Dr. Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire: The Toronto Blessing, An Experience of Renewal and Revival (HarperCollins, 1995). Think what you want about that movement, but this book still explores Jonathan Edwards’ charismatic views very thoroughly.
John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Regal, 2009).
—. Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).
Samuel Rutherford, A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist (London, 1648).
Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence (London, 1832).
Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church (Walking Barefoot Ministries, 2008), chs. 7-8.
Samuel Keimer, A Brand Pluck’d from the Burning (London, 1718).
Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN Multimedia, 2012).
John Wesley, The Standard Sermons.
—. “Letter to the Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton.”
Wikipedia, “Hyper-Grace Theology.” (REJECTS THE NEED FOR ONGOING REPENTANCE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSING YOUR SALVATION). Hyper-Grace is characterized by holding to eternal security with a high emphasis on divine grace. Hyper-Grace advocates hold that the believer is not under the Mosaic law in any sense, that one’s sinful actions cannot hurt fellowship with God, denies the necessity of regular confession of sin in the life of a believer and holds to the belief that every Christian will have an equal possession in heaven. However, Hyper-Grace advocates reject viewing grace as a “license” to live in disobedience, viewing it as the only way to stay away from sin and emphasizing the natural consequences sin may have. Thus, advocates of the view have argued that grace is the most powerful motivator of obedience. Hyper-Grace rejects the idea of “Lordship Salvation,” arguing that it leads to self-examination and doubt. Advocates of Hyper-Grace deny that salvific repentance should be viewed as contrition and hatred for sin, instead being a change of mind, thus a synonym for belief in Christ. [Edit: I believe this Wikipedia article on hyper-grace is wrong to put Dr. Sam Storms in the hyper-grace camp. Bob Wilkin, a leading antinomian theologian, reviewed Dr. Storms’ book called Kept for Jesus in 2018, and put Storms into the lordship salvation Calvinist camp.]
—. “Münster Rebellion.” A hyper-grace charismatic, Anabaptist movement of terrorists in Germany, which turned Luther away from dream interpretation for a while.
