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

emarkable conversions as the present manifestation of the
power of the Spirit unaccompanied by aught else. Others
build up doctrines, for which they try to adduce a scriptural
basis, that affirm that the supernatural has now ceased in the
churches by the will of God. They are hard pressed to find
conclusive ground in the New Testament for their theory.
Church history, and that includes an impressive and growing
amount of up-to-date testimony, records that the supernatural
never has entirely faded out of Christian experience. Even
today most Christians will admit that miracles do very rarely
occur. It is the special witness of the Pentecostal movement
that the supernatural could happen in a measure
commensurate with the New Testament.
What then? To substantiate such a testimony calls for
unwavering faith and courage. It is easy to proclaim a bare
doctrine based on Scripture, logic and wishful thinking and
leave it at that. This is hardly good enough. Therefore we
salute our Pentecostal preachers, evangelists and pastors
alike, who dare to pray for the sick and expect miracles
of healing and other wonderful things in the name of
the Lord Jesus. We owe it to our testimony to seek to build
up faith within our assemblies by publishing wellauthenticated
stories of miraculous healings and answers to
prayer. These should be undergirded by plenty of strong,
positive preaching and teaching to help our people to expect
the supernatural. "According to your faith be it unto you."
There nevertheless will remain a place for wise and
courageous facing of "failures" to receive miraculous answers
to prayer, including honest exposition of passages in the Bible
where miracles did not happen. The weakness of "faithbuilding"
propaganda that does not face all the facts is that in
the end it can leave people more hopeless and distressed than
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