This book is yet another entry into the highly charged controversy over the gifts of the Spirit. Like many others is too reflects the conviction that the one Spirit of Pentecost has not been poured out on the church to be a source of disunity.
But unlike some, it is written out of the conviction that the promise of the Lord Jesus that the Spirit "will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13) is inseparable to its fulfilment from the assurance expressed, for instance, by the Apostle Paul that the "word of God is not bound" 2 Timothy 2:9 - the promise of the freedom of the Spirit working in the word.
The promise contained in this reality and the confident expectation of what the Spirit is yet to do in the church, despite our often confused mishandling of Scripture ought to control from beginning to end any concerns we may have with the gifts of the Spirit.
