Engaging the modern Pentecostal movement, the gifts that continue in the church today (teaching, helps, administration) are distinguished from those identified as temporary: apostleship, prophecy, miracles, healings, and tongues. That distinction shapes how 1 Corinthians 13 should be read.
Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones becomes the text for weighing the modern Pentecostal understanding of the Holy Spirit against the teaching of Kuyper, Vos, and Gaffin. Irresistible grace is the Spirit’s work of uniting us to Christ, not mere religious excitement.