The Spiritual Gifts Handbook by Randy Clark

Author:Randy Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living/Spiritual Growth;REL012120
ISBN: 9781493413737
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Within Protestantism, there were precursors to the twentieth-century Pentecostal revival. The Second Great Awakening in the early 1800s gave birth to the modern Protestant missionary movement, as well as many new ministries involving social change. The Pentecostal revival likewise impacted the world by producing a great missionary expansion, with crusade evangelism through men like T. L. Osborn, Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks, Billy Graham and many others.

The charismatic renewal that began in historic Protestant churches in 1960 and in the Catholic Church in 1967 is another global phenomenon that signals an eschatological turning point. Besides causing hundreds of millions of Christians to come alive in their faith, it is also preparing the churches to be in a better position to fulfill Jesus’ prayer that we would be one, as He and the Father are one (see John 17). Through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, many Christians have discovered a deep kinship with one another that they never knew was possible. Believers from radically different denominations have experienced the same passionate love for Jesus, the same power of the Holy Spirit, the same manifestation of tongues and other charisms. It has become clear to many that in these times, God has initiated an ecumenical movement—an ecumenism of the Spirit.

Randy: This was not an easy thing at first for traditional Pentecostals and Baptists to accept. Both groups believe Christians should not drink any alcohol. Other fundamentalists struggled with it as well. How could the Holy Spirit fall upon wine-drinking Catholics, beer-drinking Lutherans, martini-drinking Episcopalians and Scotch-drinking Presbyterians? (It should be noted that this reference is to my experience in the United States. Once in Brazil, at a multi-thousand member Presbyterian church, I made this statement and later had to apologize to the pastor and church, not realizing this Presbyterian denomination in Brazil did not allow its members to drink alcohol.)

Mary: One of the surprises of the Spirit was that the leadership of the Catholic Church so quickly accepted the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Many Pentecostals expected that Catholics who were baptized in the Spirit would soon be rejected by their church, as had occurred with Pentecostals. Instead, only eight years after the Catholic Charismatic Renewal began, Pope Paul VI met with thousands of Catholic charismatics in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and spoke of the renewal as “a chance for the church.”26 Dozens of national bishops’ conferences issued statements on the renewal, which were overwhelmingly positive, although they also cautioned against the misuse of spiritual gifts.27 Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI also embraced the renewal, expressing the hope that it would spread “the culture of Pentecost” throughout the Church.28 Pope Francis has gone further, telling the renewal, “I expect from you that you share with all in the Church the grace of Baptism in the Holy Spirit.”29

Both the outpouring on Protestants at the beginning of the twentieth century, immediately after the Pope called the whole Catholic Church to a novena for the coming of the Holy Spirit, and the 1967 outpouring

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