by Kevin Bauder | Jul 31, 2017 | Christology, Pneumatology
Nick Batzig explains for Reformation 21. While the human nature of Jesus was inseparably united to the Divine nature of the second Person of the Godhead, Jesus needed to live a perfectly sinless life in the power and by the grace of the Holy Spirit. It was not...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 13, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Ecclesiology, Pneumatology
[1 Cor. 12:13] says, “We were all baptized into one body.” The “we all” transcends the local church at Corinth for a couple of reasons. (1) The addressees of the epistle imply or designate a wider audience than the local church at Corinth (1 Cor 1:2). The latter part...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Pneumatology
He’s responding to the Charismatic theory. As the New Testament makes clear, being a “Spirit-filled” Christian has nothing to do with uttering mindless gibberish, crashing to the carpet in a hypnotic trance, or any other mystical encounter of supposed ecstatic...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 15, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Pneumatology
Osteen’s muddled comment about Latter-day Saints introduces an interesting point of discussion— especially since the founders of Mormonism claimed to experience the same supernatural phenomena that Pentecostals and charismatics experience today. At the dedication of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 13, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, Pneumatology
From Tozer: There is another kind of evidence. It is the immediate evidence of the inner life. That is the evidence by which you know you are alive. If I were to prove that you weren’t alive, you would chuckle and go home just as alive as you are now and not a bit...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 10, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Evangelicalism, Pneumatology
“The incredible irony is that those who talk the most about the Holy Spirit generally deny His true work. They attribute all kinds of human silliness to Him while ignoring the genuine purpose and power of His ministry: freeing sinners from death, giving them...
