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Agreed. There doesn't seem to be any authenticity in most of the events touted as charismatic today. A lot of it looks totally ludicrous, I'm sad to say.God can gift anyone he wants to gift and at any time; we have to agree to that. However, whole congregations today are merely going through the motions imitating the "gifts" that are the easiest to imitate. And sometimes not even that.
In my understanding, grace was supposed to be cumulative. Meaning, a semi-godly generation raises godly children who, as such, can acquire a greater outpouring than their parents, and so on.
But nothing like that has happened in church history. In my opinion it's largely because the church has been far off the mark doctrinally and thus in practice, all the while pretending to know exactly what they're doing (see my signature). All the churches are partially built on a lie which, in my opinion, is intolerable to God, namely, 'We know exactly what we're doing. We know [for sure] the correct doctrines. We know how to build a church, how to run a church, how to evangelize, how to run various ministries, and how to conduct missions."
The early church DID know what they were doing because they were led by bona fide apostles and prophets. Right now we have no business operating under such pretenses. Who are we trying to fool? Unfortunately many men are fooled by it, but we're certainly not fooling God.
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