Cessationism is on its way out, but those like John Macarthur with his "Strange Fire" conference, are still trying to beat this dead horse. Here are a couple links I would like to share regarding this issue.
AW Tozer states the issue very clearly when he says in the article I have linked to below:
"it will be seen how empty and meaningless is the average church service today. All the means are in evidence; the one ominous weakness is the absence of the Spirit’s power. ... The power from on high is neither known nor desired by pastor or people. This is nothing less than tragic, and all the more so because it falls within the field of religion, where the eternal destinies of men are involved.
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind."
An open letter to John Macarthur from A W Tozer
Michael Brown appeal to John Macarthur
Link to earlier article on our Blog - Cessationism is heresy
"John Macarthur's Strange Fire" - from Stephen Crosby
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