When the Spirit Comes with Power: Signs Wonders Among God's People

by John White

Book Overview

John White has extensively interviewed many people, including those from John Wimber's Vineyard Christian Fellowship. His years of work as a psychiatrist and as a missionary in the Third World qualify him in a special way to analyze the experiences described in this book. In addition he has thoroughly studied revivals of the past, highlighting the differences and the similarities to what is happening today. As always, John White remains thoroughly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830812229
• ISBN13: 9780830812226
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: IVP
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A Gook book on how the Holy Spirit CAN move.

A great look at the supernatural acts of the Holy Spirit from the lens of a very skeptical psychologist. Is it possible for people to shake, speak in tongues, have visions, etc? This book is an incredible resource for understanding the phenomenon of these acts of the Holy Spirit. It provides a lot of good advice on how to be cautious, wise and biblical when you experience second hand or personally these types of things of the Holy Spirit. It also gives you information and biblical background for these types of things happening still to this day. White doesn't push that one should have to have these experiences or that they're second rate Christians because of it, but provides a sound analysis of these acts of the Spirit.

God is very real and wants to be apart of the details of our lives.

This book is very informative. If you are interested in the different reasons people do not believe in the supernatural and how God works in the lives of these people to believe. This is a book for you. It helps you realize we cannot put God in a box he will not stay there. He is still working in the lives and details of his people. Donna Cox

Helpful in personal preparation for revival

John White, M.D. is a psychiatrist, bible teacher, and former missionary.His experiences in these roles give him the qualifications to sort out for us the claims and controversies about what God is doing--or not doing-- around the world. As a Bible teacher he examines revival experiences being reported today, and with the cautious insight of the scientifically-trained physician subjects them to rigorous scrutiny. The church--the entire church--should listen to White. A few chapter titles show his concerns: "Has It Ever Happened before?" "Should We Fear Emotions?" Are Revival Experiences Psychological?" "Are Revival Experiences Spiritual?" "Preparing for Revival" and so on for 11 more chapters. Near the end of this excellent book, White writes: "[The] earnest cry to God in prayer at a critical point in the church's history had incredible results. It is time to prove God again." (p.235) This work will certainly help to promote the human preparation for a revival which will come when God chooses to pour down his blessings.