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ENDTIME REVIVAL — SPIRIT-LED AND SPIRIT-CONTROLLED
(ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL PRESBYTERY IN SESSION ON AUGUST 11, 2000.)
As the writer of Ecclesiastes noted, there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Generations come and go. Revival movements come and go. Hunger for more of God comes and unfortunately wanes. Some people prefer the routine over the unexpected. Others desperately want to see something unusual, something that has never happened before.
REVIVAL EXTREMES https://www.pentecostaltheology.com/2000-resolution-16/
- Resolution 16 was presented a an emergency study research to counter NAR’s Kingdom-now aggression towards AG congregations in North America
- Results were brought on the floor before the General Presbytery on August 11, 2000
- Voted on by the council in session
- Adopted as a “white paper” by the doctrinal purity commission
- Made it an official position paper where it still remains and 16 was ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL PRESBYTERY IN SESSION
- ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL PRESBYTERY as official polity
WHEREAS, The current “river of God” includes many alleged manifestations of the Spirit which are extra-biblical. These extra-biblical manifestations have become a de facto evidence of a new level of spirituality and/or a new anointing. They are eclipsing in importance the biblical anointing called the baptism in the Holy Spirit, which is witnessed by speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance; and
WHEREAS, Latter Rain doctrines such as impartation, birthing, Joel’s Army, and the five-fold ministries taught as offices with predictive prophecy are again being heard in the new revival; and
WHEREAS, As a result, ministers and churches are being divided and members are becoming confused about the authority of the Scripture; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this General Council reaffirm the decision of the General Council of 1949, as stated: We recognize a hunger on the part of God’s people for a spiritual refreshing and manifestation of His Holy Spirit [and] That we set our hearts to seek for a continued outpouring of the Holy Spirit founded upon the clear teaching of the Word of God. Be it further
RESOLVED, That we disapprove of Latter Rain doctrines and practices such as “impartation,” “birthing,” “Joel’s Army,” and the “five-fold ministries” taught as “offices” with “predictive prophecy,” and other extraneous teachings “which, being unfounded scripturally, serve only to break fellowship . . . and tend to confusion and division.”
