All with One Accord (Donald Gee) - Deal Pentecostal Church

expense of shallow thinking. "I will pray with the spirit but I
will pray with the understanding also" is the scriptural way of
putting it.
The three golden strands of order, faith, and experience need
weaving into one cord that cannot quickly be broken. A
Pentecostal revival in the fullest measure will not stress one at
the expense of the others but will manifest a shining witness
to all three.
"I Believe In The Holy Spirit"
“I believe in the Holy Spirit.” This bare statement in what we
call the Apostles' Creed is noticeable for its brevity because it
follows the carefully detailed items of belief concerning Jesus
Christ our Lord. The accepted reason for this is obvious - at
the time when the creed took shape this article was not in
controversy. Nevertheless the significance of its thus being
above controversy should not be missed. It is evidence that
the Holy Spirit was an indisputable reality in the experience
of the Early Church. The Spirit was a definite entity.
In the long-drawn-out controversies of the first few centuries
concerning the Trinity, that led eventually to the great creed
associated with the name of Athanasius, there emerged more
detailed statements of belief concerning the Spirit, the most
famous being the affirmation that "The Holy Spirit is of the
Father and of the Son: neither made, nor created, nor
begotten, but proceeding." By that time the belief of the
Church in the Trinity of the Godhead had taken a shape in
which it has been held ever since by the vast majority of
Christians. The Holy Spirit is a Person, and as such is distinct
from the Father and the Son, yet One God in Trinity.
"I believe in the Holy Spirit." Invaluable and inevitable as
were the impressive theological discussions by which the
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