Floating Lazily Away from the Pulpit

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“But the Spirit will fall. The thunderhead will roll in. And when it happens, the work of regeneration will be a gully washer, and lots of ecclesiastics will be pretty upset. But many more of them will be soaked through, and it will become increasingly harder to preach our little floating dust cloud sermons” (Against the Church, p. 202).

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Mike Bull
9 years ago

All this talk of gully washing, soaking everybody after the Spirit falls sounds just like a New Testament baptism, and nothing like the kind practiced by sacramentalists. It seems you can’t help yourself. This is baptism envy. I doubt Peter had a little sprinkling in mind when he likened baptism to the flood. Why can’t a personal revival involve a soaking just as a corporate one does? Isn’t that the whole point of the New Covenant? A great chapter though, and so is the preceding testimony! I don’t want you to return to your roots. I want you to take… Read more »