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To put into the simplest terms: 1) Holiness first manifests itself inwardly. The Holy Ghost will help us clean up our hearts, our minds, our spirits, and our mouths. 2) Genuine holiness will manifest itself outwardly. There are Biblical principles justifying the outward appearance of a...

There was one article I read somewhere online that spoke of a California AG pastor that said he encouraged his congregation to be careful about speaking in tongues too much (or words to that effect). I read another article once that said that "tongues" were a "fad" and "vogue" inside the...

"People don't want to be different unless they have to," is apparently a quote from one California Assemblies of God preacher. They've "quieted" the operation of the spiritual gifts in their services to appease mainstream Christianity and in hopes to attract larger crowds. Anyone else hear this?

The AG continues to reinstate that the initial evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is speaking in other tongues, which is the Biblical experience.

It doesn't necessarily matter what I think. The Bible speaks of a hell where those will spend eternity for rejecting God's salvation. Do I want people to go to hell? Of course I don't. That I would suggest I haven't the love Jesus wants us to have in order to be Christ-like. At the same time...

Are there any Holiness Baptists here?

Anyone familiar with this song? I indirectly know the man who wrote it. My mother-in-law sings this song at church sometimes... Well, maybe only once.

So there is no hell?

Anyone familiar with this theology? Carlton Pearson was a Pentecostal televangelist that got the "revelation" that God wasn't sending anyone to hell. Everybody goes to Heaven, basically. Hell doesn't exist.

Anyone followers (or used to be followers) of the Bakkers and their PTL ministry?

Most Christians originally used "charismatic" as an additive to what they already were. For example, a Baptist would still believe Baptist doctrine, but yet now they believe in the spiritual gifts, so they're Charismatic Baptist now. That's what John Osteen was for years. The Lakewood Church was...

I met a self-identifying Charismatic Catholic at Ollie's one time. She was very friendly.

I'll answer my own questions: How do you define Charismatic? My definition may not be the proper one, nor the one most self-identifying Charismatics might prefer. I'd say Charismatic refers to one of two things: 1) a Christian within a specific denomination that accepts the validity of the...

How do you define it? Why would you call yourself Charismatic? Do you view it as a denomination?

Yes, I have received the gift of the Holy Ghost. I received it on Sunday, February 22, 2016. I was praying with my father and another brother in the church by my side. Once I finally relinquished myself to God, I was filled with the Holy Ghost and began speaking in other tongues as the Spirit...

Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Have you received it the Bible way? When did you receive the Holy Ghost?