Heather Tomlinson shares a short explainer about charismatic gifts of the Spirit and cessationism, following a recent Unbelievable? debate 

The question of whether God ‘speaks’ today – or how he does it – deeply divides the Protestant evangelical Church. Yes, at present there are huge disagreements over gender, sexuality and fashionable preoccupations like that. But for a purely theological disagreement that is of interest to the ordinary believer, I’d argue that the question of how the Holy Spirit acts and guides is the cause of the biggest schism in evangelicalism at present. 

If you’re not familiar with this dispute, on one side are what are called ‘charismatic’ churches, who emphasise that the Holy Spirit… (Register to read the rest of the article)