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A FALLING AWAY: THE CHARISMATICS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18
Deuteronomy 18:20-22

1 Corinthians 14:6-12

 

“…blessed is the man

that trusteth in Thee.”

 

A FALLING AWAY: THE CHARISMATICS
 
The Charismatic Movement has its roots in the old Pentecostal Movement which originated in America at the beginning of the 20th century. The “old Pentecostals” were, by and large, sound Bible-believing Christians, holding to the fundamental doctrines of the faith. They practised their “tongues speaking” and “faith healing” generally on a low key within their own assemblies.
 
In the sixties, something happened. The “tongues and healing” movement really began to move. Groups of Christians all over America found a new dimension to their hitherto insipid, dull or lifeless Christian experience. Suddenly, members of “dead churches” in non-Pentecostal Protestant denominations discovered “Pentecostal power” in meetings for prayer, Bible study, fellowship and worship. This sort of “revival” swept through all the main line churches, but soon spilled over to the RC and, of course, they began to experience the ecstasy of “tongues speaking” and the “power of faith healing.”
 
Within a couple of decades almost all churches around the world came under the influence of this “Holy Spirit Renewal” movement. Added to the traditional “tongues and healing” of the old Pentecostals, the new Charismatics have moved into:
 
a) trans-denominational unity of the ecumenical sort,
b) extra-biblical claims of “prophetic utterances, dreams and visions, and wonders,”
c) wild claims of “miracles, healings, raising of the dead, extra-terrestrial trips,” etc.
 
But the joining of Protestants with the RC in “ecumenical unity” exposes its FALLING AWAY in no uncertain manner.
 
THOUGHT: Am I in the Charismatic Movement?
PRAYER: Help me, Father, to look to Thy revealed Word for wisdom to discern the signs of the time.

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