Hi Billy,
On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> There also is a revival, small scale but real enough, of Christian prophetism
> in some Bible churches and other Evangelical communities. The following
> article
> gives us a glimpse into that world.
Small scale?
Pretty much every charismatic church (including mine) believes in the
modern-day gift of prophecy, and charismatics are now make up over half of
evangelicals, and a quarter of American churches:
• The Barna Group - Is American Christianity Turning Charismatic?
• Charismatic Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> But is the article's definition of "prophet" valid, granting that there is
> just about
> universal agreement that predicting the future, while it may be part of a
> prophet's message,
> is NOT what prophecy is all about, certainly not most of the time, and at
> best only
> on special occasions. A prophet, we are told is a "truth teller."
More specifically, a prophet is someone who communicates a
supernaturally-revealed truth; often the supernatural element is about the
applicability to a particular person, not necessarily an objective fact.
-- Ernie P.
>
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