Product Description

Building on the wide acceptance and trustworthiness of the Spirit-Filled Life® Bible, Jack Hayford has led a team of anointed leaders to produce the New Spirit-Filled Life® Bible, which offers a fresh look at the Scriptures and the work of the Holy Spirit. Loaded with new content from new contributors and including some material from the previous Spirit-Filled Life® Bible, this new edition addresses important issues of Spirit-filled living in the context of solid biblical scholarship. Readers will be glad to see the popular "Word Wealth" feature and the "Kingdom Dynamics" feature throughout the Bible.

Among others, the new Kingdom Dynamics include: "Christlikeness of Character" by Fuchsia Pickett, "Shepherding Amid the Supernatural" by Billy Joe Daugherty, "Keys to Cultivate a Woman's Effectiveness" by Jane Hansen, and "The Ministry of Reconciliation" by Bill McCartney and Raleigh Washington. In addition, a number of original Kingdom Dynamics have been retained, including: "Kingdom of God" by Jack Hayford and "Faith's Warfare" by Dick Eastman.

A new generation of believers seeking to become biblically equipped for kingdom building will eagerly read and embrace the New Spirit-Filled Life Bible®. In fact, anyone who has used and loved the Spirit-Filled Life® Bible will want this new edition, full of fresh insight from many of today's most respected leaders.

Contributors include: Barbara Amos, Bishop Charles Blake, Reinhard Bonnke, Paul Cedar, Billy Joe Daugherty, Joy Dawson, Steve Fry, Joseph Garlington, Jane Hansen, Jack Hayford, Marilyn Hickey, Freda Lindsay, Bill McCartney, Lloyd Ogilvie, Fuchsia Pickett, Carlton Pearson, Bishop Kenneth Ulmer, and many others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71407 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 12
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2064 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780785258803
• Condition: New
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Customer Reviews

AWESOME Bible
I cannot put the Bible down. I owned the first version and, yes the print was larger in the old version, which I can use as I get older. This Bible has practically everything you need in it from maps, Strong's Concordance, Greek/Hebrew translation of words, and word study. The awesome part is in the article series in the back of the Bible which talks about the problems w/in today's church, Healing of Our Nations (called to a reconciliation ministry to all nations), restoration, Messianic Believers, spiritual gifts, and how to bring another to Christ. As a Jewish believer, the relevancy in today's world with the Middle East, Judiasm, Israel, and the prophetic word from the O.T. is right on target. It is an awesome Bible!

Agree that the old one is better
I agree with the reviewer who said the old one is better. I considered buying the new one from a bookstore but the graphics turned me off: smaller type, jumbled, hard to follow. There were a couple of new things in this one that were attractive, but I also agree that the loss of the old articles more than outweighed the additions. Amazon was selling the older edition (1998) too---go for that one! (Try half.com if no longer available on Amazon) But if you can't get the older one, then this is the next best thing.

New but not necessarily better
The original Spirit-filled Life Bible was a triumph - filled with great information and practical articles that helped ground believers in their walk. I owned several and recommended them to my friends. I was looking forward to the next edition, hoping that the editors would find some innovative way to improve on a great beginning. They didn't.

While the new version sports a new look, new graphics, new contributors and new articles, the flaws outweigh the gains.

The good news is the commentary, word studies, and book notes duplicate the first edition. Some of the articles of the original make a second appearance - like the excellent article on understanding the end times. The center column cross-references and notes are very useful along with the maps at the end of the bible. These things continue to make the SFLB a useful and balanced teaching tool for believers.

The flaws are the graphics (they muddy up the "look" of the SFLB) and the new articles.

Graphics are always subjective, but the new ones are busy and cause the pages to look crowded with different colored half-tone boxes, tiny margins and too many type styles.

Where the revision really suffers is in the new articles. Pat Robertson's outstanding 15-page essay "Spirit Answers to Hard Questions" was dropped. In its place are offerings on world evangelism, healing nations, understanding Messanic Jewish Ministry, and How to lead a Person to the Savior. Of these, the last one is the only one with practical value - after all, few of us will be conducting world evangelism, nation healing, or outreaches to Messianic Jewry. These themes admittedly have real value to the Body of Christ - but is the limited space available in the Spirit-filled Life Bible the best place for them? Are believers really getting the best bang for their buck? Not in my opinion.

The articles feel more like Spirit-filled political correctness than discipleship and that takes its toll on the new edition. No longer is it the hard hitting, one-volume, discipleship manual for Charismatics that the first edition was. Sorry to say this, but I'm sending mine back.