Well, i discovered last year that blogging was hard work and, sadly, i did not have the energy to keep it up. My apology for those who kept coming back to the site and hoping for more. I am, however, going to try again - perhaps hesitatingly and a little bit slowly (if i drip feed the blog then perhaps i can keep it up).
On a different note, I realise that boasting is a sin - in which case i ask for your forgiveness (for the second time this post). I am excited to announce that i have recently had two journal articles published in international pentecostal journals.
The Spirit and doctrinal development: a functional analysis of the traditional pentecostal doctrine of the baptism in the holy Spirit - Pneuma 29 (2007): 4-22
Pentecostal ecclesiology: a methodological proposal for a diverse movement - Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15/2 (2007): 215-234.
I am under copyright restriction in respect to these articles - so cannot publish them the details on this blog - but i might, in the next little while, give you a taster of a few ideas (so that you have a look at the journal!).
by Shane Clifton
Josh Dowton has asked a question that is worth pursuing - "what exactly is the work of the Spirit in believers who do not claim the Pentecostal experience of Baptism in the Spirit?"
Wow - how do i answer? I would start by the affirmation (perhaps surprising to some pentecostals) that the Spirit is doing the same sort of radically diverse things in all Christians - pentecostal and non-pentecostal alike. So, rather than focus on what the Spirit is doing in Pentecostals and not doing in non-Pentecostals, i would like to leave the matter much more open (after-all, the Spirit "blows where it wishes" - and we need to be careful that our identifications of that Spirit do not end up confining the Spirit).