Summary and Assessment of WOF logos-rhema teachingsīasically, according to the WOF doctrine, the idea is this: the written word of God is logos and it is universal, yet when logos speaks to you, it becomes rhema. Then one day it came alive – it was to you, rhema.“ Ģ. Some of you may have read the Bible yet it never meant a thing to you. But before the logos can do us any good, it must become rhema.
Jesus Christ is the final logos to all men everywhere. The Bible, the Ten Commandments, the gospels are all logos – the universal word of God to all men. Personal prophecies („God’s revelation of His thoughts and intents to a particular person, family, or group of people“) is also a rhema, but Hammon explains that this is: “God’s Word individually applied, a word that is subordinate to the Logos… A rhema may come while reading the Bible, as God quickens the text, or it may come to us through the spoken words of another person.” All Christians must live by the Logos and receive the rhema as needed. But we should also be grateful for the rhema, which provides the precise word needed for the specific situation. No true rhema spoken by a present-day prophet will be in conflict with the spirit and context of Logos… We all must thank God for the Logos, which is the standard of all truth. When we use rhema, we mean a specific word from the Lord that applies it to us individually. To summarize: when we use the term Logos, we mean the Scriptures as a whole. īill Hammon in a book Prophets and Personal Prophecy, God’s prophetic Voice Today, sys the following: The word used for word in this scripture came from the Greek word rhema, which means “revealed word.” When God reveals something to you through His Word or with instruction spoken directly to your spirit, that is a rhema word-a revelation. Kenneth Copeland Ministries website says the following: When the Holy Spirit speaks to you, He quickens a Scripture verse or specific direction to you-a specific word for a specific time and purpose. We have rhema, the spoken Word, so we know what to do and where to go. We need the written Word as our foundation, but we also need the spoken Word ( rhema) for direction. So a rhema word can be the spoken Word of God. In Matthew 4:4, He said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word.’ “ Jesus spoke the written Word He needed for the situation. When Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, He countered each temptation by speaking a “rhema” word. “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1 NKJV). The Greek word rhḗma simply means “any spoken word.” In the New Testament, there are two different Greek words used to identify words from God: lógos and rhḗma. Kenneth Hagin Ministries website says the following: In the first section, I will present definitions of the concept of logos and rhema given by the WOF teachers in the second section, I will assess their teachings and in the third section, I will demonstrate that the distinction between logos as the written word of God and rhema as the spoken word of God is not supported by the Bible. Have you ever asked why Word of Faith teachers insist on the difference between logos and rhema? Although I wrote about many topics in the area of pentecostal and charismatic theology, I never took the time to study this logos– rhema topic until now.
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