Southern Baptists tend to be very quiet on the subject of the Holy Spirit, probably because of a fear of an “overreaction.” For example, on Pentecost Sunday, the silence is deafening in many (most?) SBC churches for any observation of that day and its importance (the birth of the church.) This excellent article by Greg Allision of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is fair and balanced. He was my professor for Systematic Theology 3 during my Masters Program and I was quite surprised (and pleased) to find out that he is a theological continuationist. I too am a theological continuationist and affirm on the basis of 1 Cor 12:13 that all Christians are baptized with the Holy Spirit at the moment of conversion. I do not believe that phenomenon is a “second blessing” as advocated by most pentecostals and charismatics. I agree with Dr. Allison when he writes,

“But we would be equally wrong to conclude that “the gift of the Spirit … goes beyond salvation” in the sense that “the prior activity of the Holy Spirit in repentance and faith”—salvation, or conversion, or regeneration—constitutes a prerequisite for receiving the Spirit. Rather, on the basis of repentance and baptism, both salvation and the gift of the Spirit are granted, and the latter is not dependent on the former . . . . though believers who for years experienced an apathetic, listless, impotent Christian life may claim a decisive renewal through a crisis experience with the Holy Spirit and refer to that subsequent work of the Spirit as baptism with and/or the outpouring/falling/coming/gift of the Spirit, such an experience does not change the reality that they were already the recipients of the baptism with and/or the outpouring/falling/ coming/gift of the Holy Spirit at the moment they experienced salvation.”

The article is worth reading in entirety.