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Ep.105 - God's Special Agent: The Holy Spirit - More To Life Than What I Have

January 22, 2025 • Pete Goulding

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Can you be a believer if you’re not baptised in the Holy Spirit? Does the lack of the baptism experience impair your overall journey of faith? Does it impact on your relationship with God? How do we understand the Spirit’s baptism? Have the charismatics got it right? Where did the current thinking on the baptism of the Spirit originate from? How did a Methodist holiness movement, some 150 years ago, come to affect the way we see the Spirit’s baptism now? How did such significant movements, like that of the ‘Victorious Christian Life’, help shape today’s charismatic understanding?

In this weeks episode Pete and the Curious team examine the historically controversial idea of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. How are we to understand the occurrences of Acts 2, 8, 10 and 19? Where do such experiences connect to today’s twenty-first-century church? How significant is the gift of ‘tongues’? Is it to be taken as the dominant initial evidence of Spirit baptism? All this and more will be talked over in this week's episode. Have fun!