Quote from maxpi:
Look at the third chapter of Revelation, the letters to the churches. People have figured out that these churches represent the ages of the church. Jesus tells the last one that they think they are fine but they are really messed up. I find that the confession and prayer meetings are the only way for this church, the current age, to overcome the problems of blindness, etc. I mean if you cannot see what is plainly written in scripture, that pretty much qualifies you as blind, right? I find that the Charismatic church is worse off than your style of church. Your style corresponds more to the sixth church in revelation, the one where not much is asked of them and nothing is said against them. Your church comes out of history about 200 years ago, maybe, along with the original methodists and holiness, maybe? I find that the Holiness church fits the description of the sixth church really well and the Charismatic one fits the description of the seventh church really well. In any case, I don't know of any church that has prayer meetings 4 times a month that sometimes run from 11am to past midnight. Once you get it right you are not fidgeting around looking at the clock, believe me. We have the meetings near an airport so people can fly in, it is fun to watch Baptists and people like that sit there with their jaws dropped for hours on end, watching things happen that their theology tells them is impossible. Nobody has ever refuted what we do from scripture either and we have 2 hours of lecture in the morning, from scripture.