The Way to Pentecost

When our fathers glowed with fires kindled in the soul, they gave vent in noise. The modern way is to be still. Spirituality and silence are as wedded as were revivalism and rowdiness. Both types are emotional, but revivalists did believe their work was of the Spirit; the Quietists cultivate psychological influence. They speak of the Spirit with a different content from that of the Creeds.

Gospel of Christ – Irresistible

“The gospel to me is simply irresistible. Being the man I am, full of lust and pride and envy and malice and hatred and false good and all accumulated exaggerated misery – to me the Gospel of the grace of God and the redemption of Christ, and the regeneration and sanctification of the Holy Ghost, that Gospel is to me simply irresistible, and I cannot understand why it is not equally irresistible to every mortal man born of woman.” – Pascal

Doctrinal clarity or throbbing Love for God – which is it, Theologian?

“You may not be exactly doctrinal with a man, but the main part is intact. And that is when you are a man of God, brother, when you can accomodate someone that isn’t as perfect as you. You’re carnal if you can’t. If you’re just there to defend the faith of the four walls you’re in, or the denomination or culture, heaven help you. You’re a grief to GOD. If you’re not there in the pulpit for souls brother, get out of it. If you’re there for doctrine, you’ll have no compassion. You’ll even prove people need to go to hell and think it’s justifying God’s…sovereignty. You’ll miss the mark. You’ll do anything but you won’t have a throbbing cry to God when you’re carnal. You’ll just have a throbbing cry to defend doctrine at the cost of souls being put into darkness, blaming God.”

From Keith Daniel, The Revivals of America, preached at Maranatha Baptist Family Camp October 16th, 2004

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Until His return