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Spoiled by the Revelation
I often wonder, in this day of mass printing, if the availability of His word has spoiled some of us. An argument is made by cessationists that since the word was complete the gifts have disappeared. With that clearly churches like that won't have the gifts.
I thought about the first church, maybe I used my imagination a bit, but from what I've read in Acts and the Epistles I envision a church that met together often. By often I don't mean once a week, every week, but several times a week. And I envision that what they did most of was pray and allow the gifts to operate. I wonder if many Christians have gotten away from that because of the attitude that the Revelation of His word is enough.
His word certainly is enough, for Revelation on God's will concerning issues of salvation etc etc, but does that mean God wants us to pray less now and not have the gifts in operation to minister to one another?
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