Between Two Worlds

As long as I'm Poythress-blogging, I might as well link to his excellent article on spiritual gifts. Wayne Grudem writes in the preface to The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today he thanks his "more 'charismatic friends . . . and my more 'non-charismatic' (or even 'anti-charismatic') friends . . . , as well as friends who are really in neither camp (especially Vern Poythress . . .)."

So if you want to read a mediating position between charismatics and non- (or anti-) charismatics, then you might want to read what Poythress has to say.

Ultimatley, he believes

there is no need for Gaffin and Grudem to disagree about the modern phenomena. They disagree only about the label given to the phenomena ("not-prophecy" versus "prophecy"), and about whether the New Testament phenomena were identical or merely analogous to the modern phenomena. . . . If charismatics and noncharismatics could agree on these points, I think that the debate on modern spiritual gifts would be largely over.