Thread: Are We Living in a Post-Pentecostal Era?
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Old 10-23-2012, 06:15 PM
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Re: Are We Living in a Post-Pentecostal Era?
Follow the money...or the power mongers

Historically speaking, the gifts fell out of use early on. I suspect partly because of so called heretical groups and peer pressure.

The Montanists were a group lead by a self proclaimed prophet who claimed to be the Spirit incarnate. He may have been considered Pentecostal or Charismatic by today's standards. They believed in the gifts of the Spirit. Perhaps his heretical sect led many to discount and distrust the idea of the gifts of the Spirit and due to false prophets and berating peer pressure by so called "Xers", the last bastions of those that still believed on the gifts gave away to Central (Roman) authority and a more rigid liturgical method of church.

The gifts have been misused today. We have false prophets all creeping up from within the Pentecostal/Charismatic ranks. Many Xers rail against Pentecostals and Charismatics. It's not hard to see a repeat of history here
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