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Craig Keener, in Spirit Hermeneutics: Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost, ends his book with these words.
"An early Pentecostal voice invites us to bring Word and Spirit together—a
collaboration that I would envision as the best of evangelical exegesis of the
text combined with the best of charismatic power to embrace and carry out its
message. Smith Wigglesworth, one of the most prominent early Pentecostal
healing evangelists, felt disappointed toward the end of his life that the
Pentecostal revival had not directly ushered in the end of the age, as the
earliest Pentecostals had hoped. He did not, however, relinquish hope for the
future. He believed that in addition to the Pentecostal outpouring of the
Spirit that brought a restoration of the gifts, there would someday come
another revival emphasizing God’s Word.
“When these two moves of the Spirit combine,” he prophesied, “we shall see the greatest move the Church of Jesus Christ has ever seen.” May it be so, Lord." (289)
“When these two moves of the Spirit combine,” he prophesied, “we shall see the greatest move the Church of Jesus Christ has ever seen.” May it be so, Lord." (289)
