Quotes from Frank D. Macchia

Many have distinguished between Spirit baptism theologically defined as Christian initiation and Spirit baptism as an experience of renewal to be had by all believers.

In Spirit baptism, the divine-human interaction is not just an abstract issue to be debated but an overwhelming participation in God that is sanctifying and ever more expansive and diversifying charismatically.

Spirit baptism draws one into the field of God's presence and transforms one's life with the love of God.

Spirit baptism in the evangelical traditions influenced by Reformed theology has thus been defined according to this presupposition, namely, as regeneration by faith in Christ as proclaimed in the gospel.

Baptism in the Spirit implies a baptism into Christ and into God, a participation in the divine life by which we place on God our death, sin, suffering, and isolation in order to partake of his life everlasting, righteousness, healing, and fellowship.

a compartmentalization of the Pentecostal understanding of Spirit baptism as a post-conversion charismatic empowerment will fail to enrich our understanding of the soteriological functions of the Spirit

Spirit baptism is a baptism into the love of God that sanctifies, renews, and empowers until Spirit baptism turns all of creation into the final dwelling place of God.

worship can play a revolutionary role in the transformation of our symbols, including our doctrinal formulations.

theology needs to develop an idiom that seeks to "glorify God and enjoy him forever.

doctrinal conceptions among Pentecostals are too diverse to provide us with that which is theologically distinctive to the movement.

narrative interpretation provides the groundwork for a more participatory understanding of biblical interpretation that is shared by many Christian groups globally.

faith is complex and has experiential, practical, and rational dimensions. None of these can be completely neglected in any form of theological discourse.83

The love of God poured out upon us in the gift of the Spirit (Rom. 5:5) cannot be exhausted by the koinonia of the church.