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This episode discusses the right use of the gift of prophecy in small group meetings according to New Testament guidelines.

Talk 4 The Right Use of Prophecy Hello again and welcome to Talk 4 in our series on NT Guidelines for Small Group Meetings. In our last two talks we were looking at Paul's teaching on tongues and interpretation. Today our subject is the gift of prophecy. We will consider what it is, its value and purpose, its limitations, and how it should be used in our meetings. What is prophecy? People sometimes confuse prophecy with foretelling the future, but its basic meaning is speaking on behalf of someone else . In the Bible it's usually used to refer to speaking on behalf of God . And obviously, if you're going to speak on behalf of God you need to hear from him first. This happens by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. In Old Testament times and right up to Acts 2 in the New Testament, the Spirit was given to relatively few people, but from Pentecost onwards the gift of the Spirit was made available to all God's people. So prophecy in the New Testament worked rather differently from how it worked before Pentecost. There are now three different ways in which we may be said to prophesying: 1. When we tell others about Jesus we are speaking on God's behalf and so there's a sense in which…

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Host: Dr David Petts

Topics covered

• prophecy
• spiritual gifts
• small group meetings
• New Testament guidelines
• Christian teachings

Keywords

• prophecy
• spiritual gifts
• New Testament
• small group meetings
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 1 Corinthians 12:8-11, Romans 12:6

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