(Charisma/Grady): "Strange Fire" & Costals: Clean-out the Barn

Gotta lot of cleaning up to do.  How did so many loons get into this barn?  Poor Grady, this is a pathetic apology, but getta' crackin,' Lad, ya've gotta lot of work ahead of you.

This is Grady at his apologetic best and it entirely fails.  Have at Costals.  But, go ahead and open "That Back Door" to Munsterites, Radical Anabaptists, Babblers, enthusiasts, false voices, false prophets and other Montanists. 

Sing a little Jim Morrison (while you're at it), probably in a drug-crazed demonic state.  Then, get to cleaning out the barn. Poor Grady at Charisma, not a ringing endorsement of his movement.  Time for Reformation Christians to confront these loons.

Also, a Costalist, Adrian Warnock, tweeted the tweet below during the "Strange Fire" conference.

 

 

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/32228-its-past-time-for-a-charismatic-reformation

It’s (Past) Time for a Charismatic Reformation

2:29PM EDT 10/27/2011 J. Lee Grady        

(AP Images/Ferd Kaufman)

 

In honor of Reformation Day, here are some complaints I’m nailing on the Wittenberg door.

Long before there was an Occupy Wall Street, Martin Luther staged the most important protest in history. He was upset because Roman Catholic officials were promising people forgiveness or early escape from purgatory in exchange for money. So on October 31, 1517, Luther nailed a long list of complaints on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.

Luther’s famous 95 theses were translated from Latin into German and spread abroad. Like a medieval Jeremiah, Luther dared to ask questions that had never been asked, and he challenged a pope who was supposedly infallible. Through this brave monk, the Holy Spirit sparked the Protestant Reformation and restored the doctrine of grace to a church that had become corrupt, religious, dysfunctional, political and spiritually dead.

I am no Luther, but I’ve grown increasingly aware that the so-called “Spirit-filled” church of today struggles with many of the same things the Catholic church faced in the 1500s. We don’t have “indulgences”—we have telethons. We don’t have popes—we have super-apostles. We don’t support an untouchable priesthood—we throw our money at celebrity evangelists who own fleets of private jets.

In honor of Reformation Day, I’m offering my own list of needed reforms in our movement. And since I can’t hammer these on the Wittenberg door, I’ll post them online. Feel free to nail them everywhere.

1. Let’s reform our theology. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He is God and He is holy. He is not an “it.” He is not a blob, a force, or an innate power. We must stop manipulating Him, commanding Him and throwing Him around.

2. Let’s return to the Bible. The Word of God is the foundation for the Christian experience. Any dramatic experience, no matter how spiritual it seems, must be tested by the Word and the Holy Spirit’s discernment. Visions, dreams, prophecies and encounters with angels must be in line with Scripture. If we don’t test them we could end up spreading deception.

For the rest of this bizarre effort at an apologetic (again, how did ya' get so many loons, more ants per square inch than the ants in the ant hill out back, 1000s of them enthusing?  Open that "Back Door" to the loons), see:

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/32228-its-past-time-for-a-charismatic-reformation