Your Personal Pentecost Acts 1-2 Session 2 A post-charismatic charismatic movement?

“Clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). In a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit… But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you (Acts 1:3-8). All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them (2:1-4).

The phenomena of Pentecost Wind and fire Speaking in tongues Declaring the wonders of God (2:11) “They have had too much wine” (2:13) The Spirit of prophecy:

Reminiscent of Old Testament prophets and judges “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy” (2:17-18). Reminiscent of Old Testament prophets and judges

Are the disciples being converted here? Are they being born again? Are they being called and commissioned? Or, are they being empowered to fulfil an already established calling and commission? Therefore, is there “subsequence”, a two-stage experience? Is this the model for all Christians? When do Christians “receive” the Holy Spirit, at conversion, or later?

Overcoming doctrinal paralysis Pentecostals versus Conservative Evangelicals The solution: The kingdom of God lens

No “gospel plus” – No “higher-class” Christians What evangelicals say And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ… (Romans 8:9-11). For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). No “gospel plus” – No “higher-class” Christians

What Pentecostals say: narratives Jesus (birth and baptism), The disciples (Resurrection and Pentecost), Converts in Acts (Samaritans, Paul, Ephesians). We need the born-again experience,and the baptism in the Holy Spirit as power for witnessing.

The kingdom lens Age to Come M&M R P This age The End

The kingdom lens adapted Age to Come Bir Bap M&M R P This age The End

Many relations with the Holy Spirit Creation Human life, in the image of God Conviction of sin Regeneration Sanctification Power for service Glorification

Communicating the resurrection Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven” (John 20:21-23). Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3).

Communicating the ascension God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, “The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’” Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah (Acts 2:32-36).

There is therefore a Paschal as distinct from a Pentecostal gift of the Holy Spirit, the one preparatory to the other. Alfred Plummer, New International Commentary, cited by Howard Ervin, These are not drunken as ye suppose (Logos 1968). No “subsequence” doctrine, but “both/and” Many works of the Spirit and many fillings There is more than being born again

At conversion, or later, or repeatedly. Like Old Testament prophetic phenomena, more external — “what you see and hear.” Speaking in tongues is frequent, but not always. Often the gateway to the charismatic gifts (healing, miracles, revelatory gifts).

The call – the invitation Jesus said, “wait for it.” He did not imagine the church trying to serve him without it. The early disciples “all joined together constantly in prayer” as they waited for it (Acts 1:14). It is released through the laying on of hands. My story