Quotes from Craig Keener

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Sure, sir, I will," I promised, "but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you." While

the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly as in the first century. Christians in the medieval and modern periods continued to embrace these activities of the Spirit. It is, in fact, cessationism that is not well documented in earlier history; it seems no coincidence that it arose only in a culture dominated by anti-supernaturalism.