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

whole of His Church in this grave hour of her history. They
believe they have something to bring of value to the whole
Body. They believe they have something to gain by larger
fellowship with all who truly belong to Christ. They are
greatly encouraged by many world-wide tokens that old
prejudices are melting and a new era of mutual appreciation is
dawning. Let it be so. Brethren, let us receive one another, as
Christ also received us to the glory of God."
The Pentecostal Experience
The very name by which this conference is designated bears
witness to the fact of the Pentecostal experience, for although
our churches bear different denominational titles we all
accept, by the fact of our participation here, the broad
designation of "Pentecostal."
First of all I propose to speak about an EXPERIENCE.
Then I want to attempt an analysis of that experience. Finally,
it must be my duty to relate what I have had to say to the
general theme of this conference.
1. The baptism in the Holy Spirit as an experience, and not merely a
doctrine.
It is possible to enjoy that experience, and thousands have
done so, with hardly any intellectual grasp of the doctrine of
the Spirit. But it seems to me that the weakness of most
sections of the Christian Church where the Holy Spirit is
concerned is that He has become the subject of theological
dogma rather than a burning experience in the personal lives
of believers.
Let me hasten to say that I am very far from despising the
importance of correct theological views regarding the Third
Person of the Trinity; but let us remind ourselves that from
the Day of Pentecost onwards the Early Church enjoyed a
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