BibleRon writes:

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I was in the movement for about 6 yrs. I saw it from the inside not the outside. My definition of Charismatic is probably diferent from yours. Charismatics believe their gifts are exactly like and operate exactly like they did in acts.

I too have seen the movement from the inside, and in every case Charismatics justify what they do by comparing their "gifts" with those in the book of Acts and 1st Corinthians 12-14. But in order to make today's "manifestations" look like the genuine ones from the Bible, one must engage in profoundly insidious Scripture-twisting. Many of them realize how ridiculous that is, so they simply redefine the genuine article in order to make the manifestations in Acts look like what they're doing!

I have known several people who called themselves "Reformed" or "Calvinist" and Charismatic. Almost all of them have ended up running off the deep in in one or the other camp: Charismatic "dominion theology" is sometimes wed to "Reformed" theonomy and the resulting offspring is a bastardized Postmillennialism that takes the form of a Christian jihad rather than true Reformed Postmillennialism which simply holds that the power of the gospel itself will result in cultural transformation.

Look next for "Reformed" Charismatics to start turning up among followers of the "Federal Vision" theology, because they both tend to define justification as being "formed" by the church through it's work; as a process rather than an event. Just as so many "Reformed" Charismatics found a home among theonomists, so too will many be drawn to the heretical "New Perspective" for the same reason.

Been there, done that, got the teeshirt,
Robin