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In a recent issue of Review of Biblical Literature, Lars Kierspel offers this commend on Pentecostal<\/a> theologian William Atkinson\u2019s\u00a0 Baptism in the Spirit<\/a>, a monograph on the debate about James Dunn\u2019s\u00a0 Baptism in the Holy Spirit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He argues that Atkinson errs in detaching the gift of the Spirit the gift of salvation: \u201cAtkinson tries to walk on a tight rope when he associates baptism in the Spirit with baptismal initiation, on the hand, but then disassociates it from any soteriological significance, on the other, and defines the experience exclusively as \u2018charismatic and missionary.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kierspel rightly insists that the New Testament doesn\u2019t support a \u201crigid division between a salvific and missional\u201d dimensions of the Spirit\u2019s work. His point is that the gift of the Spirit to Gentiles in Acts 10 delivers to them \u201ca core content of salvation as Luke defines it: Gentile participation in the promises for Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the point can be made more broadly. The Son and Spirit are sent, and we are in the Son and the Spirit, then we are caught up into their sending. There is no union with the God of Israel that is not also a sending, no deliverance that is not also a commissioning. Israel was delivered to become a priestly nation, delivered for mission and ministry.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"