"The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness."
"Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact."
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Source: Roland Allen (2012). “The Reform of the Ministry: A Study in the Work of Roland Allen”, p.24, The Lutterworth Press
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