If your doctrine of the Holy Spirit does not include this idea of the Holy Spirit falling on people, it is seriously, grievously defective. This, it seems to me, has been the trouble especially during this present century, indeed almost for a hundred years. The whole notion of the Holy Spirit falling on people has been discountenanced and discouraged, and if you read many of the books on the Holy Spirit you will find it is not even mentioned at all, a fact which is surely one of the prime explanations of the present state of the Christian church ... Suddenly we all became so respectable and so learned and people said, "Ah, that old type of preaching is no longer good enough, the people are now receiving education" ... Then followed that most devastating thing that has affected the life of the church - Victorianism. It entered into the churches, particularly the Free Churches ... and the great word became "dignity." Dignity! Formality! Learning! Culture!
John White, When The Spirit Comes With Power, p. 170
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