"When John stood up after his encounter with the risen Lord, I suspect he was more fully John than ever before. Why? Knowing Papa does that to you. You become yourself by knowing Him as He really is," Larry Crabb in The Papa Prayer (Integrity).
"The gospel is both gift and demand. It is a divine call to both forgiveness and discipleship. It invites us both to 'come and dine' and to 'come and die,'" Larry Hart in Truth Aflame (Zondervan).
"Preaching parables is not the only way to preach to a postmodern. However, as a story it has an appeal to a worldview that rejects the larger story of life but is open, indeed curious, about the smaller stories. The preacher looks for ways to seed the Word. The use of parables is such a way," Brian Stiller in Preaching Parables to Postmoderns (Fortress Press).
"If Christians today were to learn discernment in large numbers, most television evangelists would go out of business!" Simon Chan in Spiritual Theology (InterVarsity Press).
"Like other recent Pentecostal and charismatic scholars such as Gordon Fee and former cessationist Jack Deere, I believe the position that supernatural gifts have ceased is one that no Bible reader would hold if not previously taught to do so," Craig Keener in Gift & Giver (Baker Academic).
"Although there is honest disagreement among Christians about the vailidity of tongues today, I personally cannot find any biblical justification for saying the gift of tongues was meant exclusively for New Testament times," Billy Graham in The Holy Spirit (Thomas Nelson).
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