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

of Jesus. The miracles they see do not usually receive more
than local publicity, but the sum total would make an
impressive testimony.
The healing campaigns and the Bible schools represent
extreme wings in the army of Emmanuel. They are mutually
complementary, not contradictory. Happy are we when we see
them as diversities of gifts and callings within one fully
Pentecostal church. The Christ who works miracles among us
is also the Christ whose doctrine speaks words of life. He, in
His Spirit, needs us all and we all need Him.
Mental Illness And Pentecostal Religion
It is noteworthy that whenever our Lord publicly manifested
His grace and glory, demons seemed compelled also to
manifest their presence through those whom they had been
able to take possession of. Something similar dogged the
ministry of Paul at Philippi. Conservative theologians agree as
to the veracity of the Biblical accounts of demon possession
as such. The Pentecostal movement is not alone in
maintaining that it still is a reality, and perhaps more
widespread than many care to admit. In the Missionary Herald
of the Baptist Missionary Society for August, 1956, there was
published an account of one of their lay pastors in Orissa,
India, commanding the evil spirits in the name of Christ to
come out of a woman whose head was wrenched to one side,
and who had lost her speech. Immediately she was fully
delivered, and as a result of the miracle she herself was
converted, with her husband and two other families.
We almost may expect that any occasion of revival, either
local or widespread, where the Spirit of God begins to
manifest Himself in remarkable ways will be accompanied by
parallel manifestations from beneath and not from above.
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