The Cross of Christ Alone Can Save

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey

Fair enough. You've never heard it.

Are we taking everything personal suddenly? Please don't. I don't know you.

Before you blow a hole through your head, look up "crisis experience." It's very common in theological circles, and is NOT a pejorative term.

I looked up your "crisis experience" terminology to get the gist of what the term is implying. We don't believe nor teach the "second blessing". My husband was under that teaching growing up in the COG as his grandfather was his pastor.

Many Pentecostal denominations hold to what is called the second blessing. This doctrine suggests that there is a difference between the baptism of the Holy Spirit which is received at the time of salvation and the filling of the Holy Spirit received at a later date. The claim is that salvation is the first blessing but that to be empowered for ministry (to receive your Holy Spirit gifting), it is necessary to have the "second blessing" which is referred to as being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Here is one explanation of this doctrine:

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Perhaps the most important immediate precursor to Pentecostalism was the Holiness movement which issued from the heart of Methodism at the end of the Nineteenth Century. From John Wesley, the Pentecostals inherited the idea of a subsequent crisis experience variously called "entire sanctification,"" perfect love," "Christian perfection," or "heart purity." It was John Wesley who posited such a possibility in his influential tract, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1766). It was from Wesley that the Holiness Movement developed the theology of a "second blessing." It was Wesley's colleague, John Fletcher, however, who first called this second blessing a "baptism in the Holy Spirit," an experience which brought spiritual power to the recipient as well as inner cleansing. This was explained in his major work, Checks to Antinominianism (1771). During the Nineteenth Century, thousands of Methodists claimed to receive this experience, although no one at the time saw any connection with this spirituality and speaking in tongues or any of the other charisms.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Bible-Stu...octrinal-1.htm