{"id":2027,"date":"2011-05-19T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2023-12-23T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T03:26:14","slug":"the-charismatic-pentacostal-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"The Charismatic\/Pentacostal Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of Sundays ago, I brought up the fact that Faith Bible Church in Flushing is just like Time Square Church, a charismatic movement type, regardless of their non\/inter-denominational title.<\/p>\n<p>One thought that I might be too 'strict', when I said I measured it by the music songs they use.<\/p>\n<p>That's one thing that got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I would say this, that I define the charismatics' chief problem on the fact that they see themselves <strong>more spiritual<\/strong> than others. So this would be apparent in music, in prayer and even attitude.<\/p>\n<p>I believe John MacArthur nailed it when he mentioned that they are the cause of most if not all of church problems today. 12\/23\/2023 Update: As a supplement: Here's the <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutingnow.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/20\/authentic-fire-strange-fire-or-no-fire-a-response-to-john-macarthur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a> of such claim:<br \/>\n<em>The <strong>charismatic<\/strong> movement is <strong>largely the reason<\/strong> the Church is in the mess it is today.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In <strong>virtually every area<\/strong> where Church life is unbiblical you can <strong>attribute<\/strong> it<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to the <strong>charismatic movement<\/strong>. In virtually every area, bad theology,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>superficial worship, ego, prosperity gospel, personality elevation.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All of that comes out of the charismatic movement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of Sundays ago, I brought up the fact that Faith Bible Church in Flushing is just like Time Square Church, a charismatic movement type, regardless of their non\/inter-denominational title. One thought that I might be too 'strict', when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15130,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}