[CS-FSLUG] RFC: Change of Statement of Faith

[Fred A. Miller]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:51 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> > Maybe not "superstition," but there is MUCH in the Charismatic movement
> > that
> > is suspect, at best, IMHO.
> >
> > Fred
>
> In all fairness I might have been a little one sided, but from what I've
> seen all this stuff isn't so much about God any more as it is about
> tradition or simply about being one of the guy's, and in many cases it just
> gets creepy. I've been a church before where people thought they were
> speaking in tongues, for the most part it was constant repetitive
> incomprehensible babble or other unusual sounds, it was creepy and very
> un-Christian if you ask me. Another thing that bothers me, while Baptism is
> something we probably should do, is all the pressure and people's desires
> to make it a public scene. I'm way too shy to be baptised in public right
> now, but the pastor at the church I'm currently at has dodged to bullet
> every time I asked him if a private baptism was possible. As far as being
> slain in the spirit goes, I've seen that one abused far too much; It may
> have happened in the bibile, but from what I've seen at the same church
> where I saw people who thought they could speak in tongues, I would
> question whether those people were really slain in the spirit, or whether
> they simply forgot to have breakfast before comming to church.
>
> Anyway, that one church I'm remembering this stuff from was very wierd, and
> I'm old enough now to decide which churches I'll attend for myself.

The Charismatic movement isn't that "old," with most of the growth being over 
the past 60 years or so. There are some fine Christians who attend those 
churches, but IMHO, there also is a LOT of deception and distortion of the 
scriptures by many leaders.

Just my 2 cents.

Fred

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