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Briefly - by the life in those who depend on Holy Spirit Whom He brings.

I am working my way up from the foot and will study your points next, and then Mercury's in the two threads. My own, as it happens extremely loose, vague, approximate, entirely self-chosen self-description reads (currently) Protestant, are you at some stage going to move on to me and query...

Good to read your always intelligent posts.

Yes I did and it doesn't work. I have started a separate thread on that. What are your views on my main topic on this occasion? For me, being old doesn't take away that I'm single, and being single doesn't take away that I am old. Hence, plenty of talking points for everybody.

I thought I was doing it but it doesn't seem to have worked. I suspect a malfunction in the site?

In the NT we see two models recounted, receiving in two steps, AND receiving in one step. The crucial factor both ways is that our belief be full, whether it is explained before or after. Any manifestations are not compulsory on refilling, regardless of what you are told. We must evade pushy...

(If the thread is still open) One can be happy in one's "skin" but need more continual company. I agree the other person has to be wanted for their own sake. I think the OP was worded as a good talking point. It's difficult to find communes or lodging situations where the boundaries and...

I've decided to stop waiting until I fit a "template" and pray for God's providence instead. Recently three couples younger than me and one single gent younger than me, started to warm to me. If I'm open to any guidance, and if I get them to pray as well, then perhaps! Who knows! Because...

That comes with experience and fellowship with others exchanging their insights and above all our Scripture knowledge. The same applies to any "words of knowledge or wisdom". Deference to the unscrupulous or careless breeds gullibility. O God may spiritual eyes be opened, Amen! Many...

I don't know much about it and it has been made disproportionately prominent, hence how important it is to be aware of all the other gifts in ordinary Christians. The only three genuine kinds (with proviso) are: - in congregation or small group, followed by interpretation, sometimes by someone...

According to some Christians, God's will is antecedent and consequent, and He provides prevenient grace towards believing when and how much we're ready to. His whole system is IMO stacked towards some sort of reward for us if we're not corrupt and devious in using power over others. The...

Yes "in our heads" as it were, and through what some people called "promptings" (both of which may be a from a mixture of sources), and providentially when people share insights with us (likewise); and when we read and hear Scriptures . . .

Rest of gifts - yes. (Clue to thinking: imagine tongues wasn't in the list.) The gifts are especially for weekday living and not much to overtly obtrude in the services. The fivefold (as well as all the others) belong to us all however lowly and not just the boss class. They are unvetoed (in...

In practice as I've witnessed so far, it's ambiguous, but perhaps it's their way of challenging themselves and inviting the likes of me to keep challenging them on it!

He couldn't act like Moses head on because that was the job of the religion authorities; they suspected Him of exactly that. Moses' ceremonial law was itself a dark picture, meaning to stand in for moral relating. Jesus' news was off at a tangent; completely fresh lateral thinking (news of...

According to John Henry Newman your belief (on any subject) has to be the fruit of your assent to your degrees of your inference; which I agree with. What kind of lack of "faith" got some ordinary people damned, may sometimes be a projected bad interpretation by browbeaters seizing the media or...

See post 246 and 248

It was the end of a day, two nights with a day in between, then at most the first few moments of other day.

Places I've been, it wasn't the bulk of the congregation, but the senior leadership team and their favourite volunteers, in each case. Some examples: 1 ~ (while our original premises into which we could crowd 120, suffered subsidence) to waste several years being strung along by an "architect...