It will help if we look at this as the counterpart for the disciples of Jesus»
experience at baptism.
Not exact matches
Like the descent of the Spirit
at his
baptism, this may have been an inner personal
experience.
It was precisely this desire for some infallible external guarantee which Jesus resisted when he was tempted to test his
experience of receiving a divine call
at the time of his
baptism.
Since the book draws from the imagery of the seven sacraments —
baptism, confession, communion, holy orders, marriage, healing, and confirmation — stories that center around those
experiences are much more likely to strike a chord with where I'm
at creatively with this project.
No preacher can explain the gospel, how we
experience it
at sacramental
baptism.
As believers during this church age, we
experience only two of these seven — spirit
baptism at the moment we believe in Jesus for eternal life, and water
baptism as the first step of discipleship and following Christ.
The «Pentecostal
experience» is
at the same time an unconditional acceptance by the forgiving God (justification), the beginning of a new and transformed life (sanctification), the receiving of the strength to sustain new life in an adverse social and cultural medium, and the sharing of testimony with others (
baptism of the Holy Spirit).