As I come to the end of this journey of Pentecost reflection, I’ll share this from Anglican minister and Bible translator J.B. Philips, written in the preface of his translation of the Book of Acts:
“The church is vigorous and flexible, for these are the days before it ever became fat and short of breath through prosperity, or muscle-bound by over-organization. These men did not make ‘acts of faith,’ they believed; they did not ‘say their prayers,’ they really prayed. They did not hold conferences on psychosomatic medicine, they simply healed the sick……we have ruefully to admit that they were open on the God-ward side in a way that is almost unknown today. No one can read this book without being convinced that there is Someone here at work besides mere human beings.”
Agree?!
Freddy Boswell 