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Article
Abstract
It was the 90s, as the kids say. The Pentecostal church where we worshipped in Stratford, Ontario, was swept up in the revival rippling from Airport Vineyard in nearby Toronto. News of strange and miraculous manifestations spread around the world. But the reports that struck me were testimonies about emotional healing — gut-level emotional restoration that overcame years of pain and trauma. I can still picture my friend, Michael, weeping as he bore witness to the work the Spirit had done in his heart and soul. Whatever one wanted to make of the laughing and barking(!) and trance-like states people experienced, this lasting work of someone finding wholeness seemed like exactly what God’s Spirit would be doing in the world: making all things new. Restoring the years the locusts had eaten.
Publication Date
2-4-2025
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Smith, James K.A., "Discerning what Power is for: The Spirit’s dynamic work in history will always rhyme with what God has manifested in Jesus" (2025). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 947.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/947
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