Recommended Reading
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Living in the Spirit: The Way of Salvation
R. Hollis Gause
R. Hollis Gause was for over six decades one of the foremost theologians in the Church of God, many would say the foremost theologian. He was our teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend. We had the privilege of being his pastors during the later years of his life. In this book he describes the Christian life in terms of the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. It is a Wesleyan-Pentecostal theology of salvation. In it, Gause, asserts that 'the believer is living in the Spirit from the first moment of faith in Christ. To be saved and to live a godly life is to live in and by the power of the Holy Spirit' (p. 1). The two major emphases of the book are that 'Reception of the Holy Spirit is a distinctive experience' and that 'being filled with the Spirit is a quality of being and a manner of life' (p. 1). One of the unique contributions of this book is the way Gause sets the experience of Spirit Baptism in the via salutis (way of salvation) in relationship to repentance, justification, regeneration, adoption, and sanctification. He writes, 'All of the prior experiences in redemption anticipate and are culminated in baptism with the Holy Spirit' (p. 6).
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Saved, Delivered, and Healed: Introducing a Pentecostal Theology of Salvation
by Tony Richie
Should a Christian doctrine of salvation be concerned with this life or the life to come? With forgiveness of sins or deliverance of sinners? With the saving of the soul or the healing of the body? Should it focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ or on the presence and power of Holy Spirit? To all these questions (and more), Tony Richie’s Saved, Delivered, and Healed: Introducing a Pentecostal Doctrine of Salvation answers “Yes!” Then it proceeds to present from the Scriptures, from Pentecostal theology and spirituality, and from decades of pastoral and personal experiences and academic insights an energetic and holistic view of salvation grounded in the wisdom, goodness, and power of God. Its constant focus is God’s ultimate redemptive purpose in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit for the lives of real human beings living in the real world. If you have ever wondered what Christian salvation actually means and how it actually works, then this book is for you.
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