Charismatic Abuses? Doctrinal and Emotional

Ask Pastor John
Episode: 216

[marcarteus]

Your spirituality is not determined by the number of spiritual experiences you have, but rather in the magnitude of the exaltation of Christ in your life.

[s.a.]

The more I read the Bible, the more spirit filled I am. It has changed my life since I started reading my Bible every morning.

[nagaseminarian]

Love the way pastor John tackles questions!

[brayobrizy]

So sound. There's really no confusion in how God communicates with his people.

[Nicolas-glmk]

I'm glad the doctrinal mistakes are mentioned as being potentially found on both charismatic and non-charismatic churches! I would say: the difference might be that in non-charismatic churches, those doctrinal mistakes don't shout as loud ;-) and are a little bit more difficult to spot. Let Christ be exalted as King and Saviour in our lives (may He reigns absolutely!), and let the Word of God dwell in us richly (and in it's entirety), like a solid rock under our feet!

[SuperMichelleDJ]

You can't quench the Holy Spirit by reading the Bible. This is the biggest lie I've ever heard next to Satan tempting Eve. Whenever I read the Bible, the Holy Spirit makes it come to life. He is quenched when we don't study his word. This is how I understand this, anyway.

[Monado]

'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.


Did you turn off your heart? Did your turn off your soul? Did you turn off your mind? No matter where you are at, a Charismatic, reformed etc... that's not healthy, thats trouble

[ComeJesusChrist]

I have a reformed Protestant background but when I moved house a few years ago, I joined a Pentecostal church. On the surface, it’s a Christian congregation, then you start questioning things. Why are all the elders from the same family? Why are they not interpreting tongues if they speak in tongues? Why is the pastor’s niece, the ‘worship leader’ always starting prayers about herself? Why are some elders posing on Facebook dressed up as death, vampires, witches and Satan? Why do they claim that they have their “free lunch” of salvation (without the fruits of the spirit), so nothing can take that away from them? Why is the pastor tolerating verbal and emotional abuse against people who question these practices? Why does he want all the money raised for an office when ten members are his own family and the other ten are being ignored, apart from a few family friends? These false teachers often tolerate witchcraft in the churches and their false doctrines support their spiritual abuse. I left and I will never get involved with another charismatic church ever again. In isolated places, like the valleys in Wales, many churches are these false churches.

[craigdrury]

i used to fake being in the spirit in the 90s just so i would be accepted or in agreement with others in the church yea that didnt work

[angloaust]

All churches can be doctrinally erroneous best to read bible and
Trust the infallibility of the Holy
Spirit!

[timramm]

The word of God first and always, experience junkies might has well go and do drugs or eastern religions

[AWalkingHat]

4:19 Pushing "Calvinistic truth everywhere". That's a problem right there on your side. And that's coming from a Baptist. Calvin was not God.

[rickster]

Over generalizations. I just unsubscribed. Jesus is Lord and the rest is just details.

[anthonyviljoen]

As soon as calvinism was said, I lost interest.