Over at Parchment and Pen, Michael Patton has a post on “Why I am not Charismatic“. Blogger, TC Robinson at New Leaven has also posted his reaction on Patton’s post, and on Augustine here too.
Patton, President of Reclaiming the Mind Ministries, calls himself a de facto (soft) cessationist. However, he is open to the spiritual gifts. I personally have friends who were raised as cessationist but became continuationist due to evidence that the charismata (gifts) are still in existence today. Personally, I don’t think the cessationist view has strong biblical footing. Its claims tend to be weak and seem to be based on narrow interpretations and man-centered theology that isn’t scripturally-based. The continuationist view, on the other hand, has a very strong position based on scripture and theology and is backed by the history of many early church fathers. But enough about my personal view…Read Patton’s post linked above.
A new blog on continuationism that I’ve just come across is continuationism.com (“To Be Continued…”) whose authors are Scott Lencke, a Reformed charismatic, and Marvin Cotten who has been a bible translator with Wycliffe [edited]. Check it out.
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hi!!!
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Yes, I am a continuationist too. I have too many issues with cessationism,
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Well it depends on what type of cessationism,; classical, full, strong, moderate, principled, or empirical?
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No biggie. Thanks and look forward to interaction.
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Hi Scott, sorry about leaving Marv out. I edited my post to include him too.
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Hey Kevin. Thanks for the referral to our blog To Be Continued. I do say ‘our blog’ because my colleague, Marv, regularly posts. But due to some other things that came up, he took a few week break. But he just posted up a new article yesterday. Thanks again.
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