Power in Excess of Organisation
Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come on you: and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem…


Machinery saves manual toil, and multiplies force. But we may have too heavy machinery for what engineers call the boiler power — too many wheels and shafts for the steam we have to drive them with. What we want is not less organisation or other sorts of it, but more force.



Parallel Verses
KJV: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

WEB: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."




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