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Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Showing the Spirit one of evangelicalism’s most respected New Testament scholars speaks to one of evangelicalism’s most troublesome issues. The scholar is D.A. Carson. The issue: spiritual gifts. Most of the book expounds the crucial passage, 1 Corinthians 12–14. But the concluding chapter integrates material from other portions of Scripture—especially the Book of Acts—so that the author’s...

in the things of the Holy Spirit is attested by all who truly confess Jesus as Lord. Both parties must expand their horizons: the charismatics should not feel they have some exclusive claim on the Spirit, and the noncharismatics should not be writing them off. This interpretation, I suggest, makes much better sense than those which see in “Jesus is Lord” a sufficient criterion for distinguishing the true from the false in all prophetic utterances. After all, taken as such a criterion it is disturbingly
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