Are you drunk on Christianity?
An Amazing Partner — An Amazing People:
I want to begin our study with some comments made by the famous British preacher G. Campbell Morgan — he writes about the accusation leveled at the Spirit-filled disciples on the day of Pentecost — the accusation of many in the crowd was that the Spirit-filled disciples were — drunk!
Morgan writes:
"[Carefully consider] Peter's answer to the accusations — 'These are not drunk as ye suppose' — that is, in the way you think. Compare this with Paul's injunction in Ephesians 5:18 — "Don't be drunk on wine — but be filled with the Spirit." The one is a false and destructive method of attempting to realize life in its fullness. The other is the true and effective method.
Has anyone ever charged you with being drunk with your Christianity? O God, how seldom men have thought us drunk. We lack the flashing eye, and the pulsating song, and the tremendous enthusiasm of an overwhelming conviction. That is what the city needs to ... create the opportunity for prophetic proclamation!
The church's responsibility is that her members be so Spirit-filled that the Spirit may be able to produce the new phenomena required to startle this age. The church has been far more anxious about wealth, and theologies, and organizations, than about the Spirit ... what's the use of preaching when the world is not amazed?"
