cliché, but it is the weight of the New Testament on this issue. Almost a century ago, W. H. Griffiths-Thomas, the principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, wrote, While believing that a Spirit filled life is the privilege and duty of every believer, and that as a matter of personal experience it is often realised by means of a distinct crisis after conversion, yet much modern phraseology about “the baptism of the Spirit” does not seem to be justified by the New Testament which teaches that all who are