charasmatic

[altya]

This stuff is very confusing to me. I don’t know what I am anymore because I have been in so many churches. I am now Charismatic church love to visit Presbyterian and PentecostalChurches, to tell the truth I don’t know what make them different from each other. But what I do know is that I am Born-again, Spirit-filled, Bible believing, Sin hating, God fearing and demon chasing Christian

 

[SpiritPsalmist]

This stuff is very confusing to me. I don’t know what I am anymore because I have been in so many churches. I am now Charismatic church love to visit Presbyterian and PentecostalChurches, to tell the truth I don’t know what make them different from each other. But what I do know is that I am Born-again, Spirit-filled, Bible believing, Sin hating, God fearing and demon chasing Christian

I know what you mean Altya,

When I was younger I would go to church with my mother to the Baptist church. Then, my praternal Grandparents, whom I spent a lot of time with were Penticostal Church of God. Somewhere in there both my parents decided to go to the Penticostal Holiness Church.

Around age 12 we started going to the Assembly's of God. I was in the AG until sometime in my 20's when directed by God went into Vineyard Christian Fellowship. I was 10 years in Vineyard and loved it.

When I moved to Florida there was no Vinyard close enough so I went back into the AG. Since then I have left and now I'm in a non-denominationl which is somewhere between Penticostal/Charasmatic/WOF.

I, like you, am just a born again, blood washed, Spirit filled, testifing, overcoming, sin hating, devil chasing, child of the King. Did ya ever hear that song by Carman?

 

[altya]

Yes and I LOVE the song

 

[AlabamaMan]

/me agrees with Altya and Quaffer...

I am the same way...

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Doctrine is just the clothing we wear so as to distinguish us from others. True faith is of the heart and very often does not resemble the outer layer that is seen by the world.
A couple truths:
As born again believers, nothing in my spirit contradicts what is in your spirit. All the differences are outward and superficial. Our clothing may be different, (I am baptist, you are pentecostal etc) but inwardly we only differ in quantity of revelation.. not quality.
By quality of revelation, I mean we may differ from each other in that you have received revelation about tongues or healing or faith, whereas I may not have received these things. When I do receive this revelation, it will be the same.
As a born again believer, you do not have any false beliefs in your heart. Everything in your heart is from God and is absolutely true. All differences exist in the outward, soulish level. We just wear different clothing.

 

[Scot]

The thing that sets the charismatic/pentecostal churches apart from others is that they still believe in further revelation.

God tells us in Rev. 22 that His Word is finished and we're not supposed to add to it.

These churches do this through their visions, dreams, tongues, etc. If these things are from God then they are equal to scripture and should be obeyed and studied like scripture.

In other words these churches have a wider authority than the Bible alone. They just haven't written it down in a book. They have the Bible plus whatever they have recieved in a dream, vision, tongue, etc.

Scot

 

[TasManOfGod]

This is a good outline of what is a Charimatic church:
http://www.victorylifechurch.org/pdf/what_is_a_charismatic_church.pdfhttp://www.victorylifechurch.org/pd...atic_church.pdf

Blessing
Tas

 

[LeeS]

The thing that sets the charismatic/pentecostal churches apart from others is that they still believe in further revelation.

God tells us in Rev. 22 that His Word is finished and we're not supposed to add to it.

These churches do this through their visions, dreams, tongues, etc. If these things are from God then they are equal to scripture and should be obeyed and studied like scripture.

In other words these churches have a wider authority than the Bible alone. They just haven't written it down in a book. They have the Bible plus whatever they have recieved in a dream, vision, tongue, etc.

Scot

Where do you get this definition of revelation? It most certaintly is NOT correct. When most Charasmatic's say they received a new revelation they are saying they now understand something they previously did not. That is not adding on to scripture. These revelations must go along with scripture or it is not from God. And as far as your verse in Revelation, it's referring to "that" vision that God had John writing down. The Bible was not in book form at the time so it could not have been referring to the Bible as we know it today.

It appears that you are not Charasmatic so please refer to this forums rules regarding posting by non-Charasmatics.