Charismatic Meltdown

[dolfan]

You can't reform cancer. You kill it. Charismatic belief is a cancer. He doesn't recognize it that way.

dolfan, I was agreeing with you for the most part until this phrase...
I personally am pentecostal, or charismatic. If the movement started with pentecost or with the Azusa street revival, then I assume it started with the right focus! There many good churches and ministers that haven't gone awry. Those who have erred and gone astray and away from sound doctrine are the problem. If you haven't experienced a church like that, I know of a few of them! But, I could understand what you were saying and I'm sure Lee Grady understands as well. Perhaps Lee Grady wasn't called to be the Bible Answer man until this point. I think this article (he wrote a similar article concerning Bentley, also) is a move in the right direction because it has reached a point when there are ministries that God has apparently judged, and we should also note them and watch out for their doctrines. I appreciate your thoughts.

I won't define you; that's yours to do. But, charismatics and pentecostals are not the same. Related? Well, of course. And, some of it is in the eye of the beholder, and where pentecostals just like the name charismatic, then I've overstated the point.

The problems of denominational leaders and ministries, etc., outside of charismatic circles are wholly irrelevant to this question. If Rev. Grady cares to address them, he's got the outlet. That's not what he did here. And, I repeat, his article is true. It is soft on the people he criticizes, in my view, but it is true.