John 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. Based on this verse, some believe that in the gospels Jesus...
Luke 9:1 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. …6 So they set out and went from village to village,...
For several decades the two groups have had their differences. Evangelicals disagreed with what they felt were extreme charismatic teachings. For example, a certain teaching at one time held that if a person did not speak in unknown tongues, he or she was not...
Today in parts of the world where the gospel has been established, churches which focus on God’s material blessings in this life are often the larger ones. It is indeed a good marketing strategy for a pastor to have a “successful” church. The message that “God...
1 Corinthians 13:2 …if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. Absolutely! Sadly, however, in contemporary foreign missions we now use this as a pretext for the dismal lack of the miraculous when proclaiming the gospel of the...
There are of course reports of the miraculous taking place through the ministries of evangelical missionaries to gospel-resistant peoples in the Third World. But they are but occasional—and far short of what we would expect from studying the gospels. In...
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