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Discernment, Revivals, and Godly Common Sense

Thanks to Dan Edelen  at Cerulean Sanctum for this excellent post!

I’ve received further e-mails asking for more of my thoughts on discerning what is truly of God when signs and wonders and revivals break out. This comes on the heels of two posts I wrote last week  (here and here) discussing events at the Lakeland “revival” down in Florida.

At a time when discernment appears lost on vast portions of Evangelicalism and the charismatic movement,  basic, biblical principles are needed to discern truth from error. While I believe that the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits cannot be condensed into a set of tips, I also believe that basic rules for discernment CAN be derived from the biblical text and from plain, old common sense. God gave us a brain smart enough to avoid eating obvious poison, and so we should use the brains He gave us to make wise choices about truth and falsehood.

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One Comment on “Discernment, Revivals, and Godly Common Sense”

  1. DLE Says:
    May 27, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Thanks for linking to my post at Cerulean Sanctum, but I suspect you want the link to the actual post (below) rather than the link to the main page:

    http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/05/discernment-revivals-and-godly-common-sense.html

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