Cessationists say it has stopped. Sensationists try to add to it by human feelings, ideas, and effort. Facinationists live in awe of it and surrender to it. What is it? It is the power and presence of Jesus Christ living and working in today’s world.
The psalmist in the Bible said: “I will keep my eyes always on the Lord.” (Psalm 16:8 NIV) If the psalmist could do that hundreds of years before the first Christmas, how much more can we 2000 years after Christ has been born, laid down His life for us, risen from the dead, and now is present to live and work inside of His followers! (Colossians 1:27)
There are at least three ways Christians today present Christianity. Cessationists present the Gospel while denying or ignoring its present-day life-changing and supernatural power. (2 Timothy 3:5) Sensationists mix the Gospel with lots of human programming, ritual, or hype. (Galatians 3:3) Fascinationists live in continual awe of Jesus and continually experience Him as living and working in the world today in, though, and around ordinary people like themselves. — “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
I am a Christian facinationist! The risen Jesus keeps me passionately in awe of Him and amazed at what I see Him doing in, though, and around me. I say to Jesus: “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.” (Psalm 16:2) Thank You, Jesus!!!
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