“Have your received the Holy Spirit?” What would you say in answer to that question and how would you know how to receive Him? For many Christians, the gift of the Spirit is known through ecstatic feelings and experiences. “Being slain in the Spirit”, having the “Gift of Tongues,” etc. is the epitome of the “receiving the Spirit” experience.
Read MoreFour spiritual trends in people, institutions, churches and schools
In dealing with students over the years, there are several spiritual trends that I have observed that can be extrapolated to describe spiritual human nature in general which I have labeled in the terms of Students A, B1, B2 and C. While it is students that have shown these trends, it isn’t just teenagers that tend to demonstrate these characteristics, but adults, institutions, churches, schools and even the denomination as a whole.
Read MoreThe Gospel: how to be saved and believing in Jesus
Too often Christians including many Seventh-day Adventists don’t know the gospel. When asked, “What is the gospel?”, I will hear a hesitant, “Believe in Jesus...?” In Revelation 14:6 & 7 the first angel preaches “the everlasting gospel to preach to every living creature” and that angel preaches, “for the hour of His judgment is come” and I ask, “How is the judgment a part of the everlasting gospel?” I get blank stares.
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