Silent Assemblies https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/silent-assemblies/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:03:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Silent Assemblies https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/silent-assemblies/ 32 32 16720591 Anointing https://www.quakerranter.org/anointing/ https://www.quakerranter.org/anointing/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:03:05 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61560 Mike Farley, of Silent Assemblies, writes of an early Quaker interpretation of anoiting:

I have been struck by the word “anointing”. Elizabeth Bathurst (as quoted by David Johnson) wrote: “But I brought them the scriptures, and told them there was an anointing within man to teach him, and the Lord would teach them himself.” We are not very used, I think, to the term among Friends today. Among charismatic Christians it is much more common, and seems to be used in both the sense of being given spiritual gifts… But I think Elizabeth Bathurst, following the apostle John, as she says, is using the word in a slightly different sense to either of these, and it is a sense we as Quakers should recognise.

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