March 2012

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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 019 - What We Don’t Know about “The Anointing”

Part of a 'Strong's Concordance' entry on the word 'anointed'

Review of last week’s episode, An Unhappy Heresy, the first installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

Study on the words anoint and anointing

• No one in the New Testament ever prayed for “the anointing,” so why are so many Christians praying this way?

• If orthodoxy is right belief, what the early Christians taught and believed, then..
• Orthopraxy is right practice, that is, how the early Christians lived out what they believed.
• In all the prayers we read in the Book of Acts, in Paul’s epistles, etc.—in other words, in any passage that would give us insight into New Testament orthopraxy—nobody ever “prayed for the anointing.” What was it that New Testament Christians understood that we don’t? [click to continue…]

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