I started watching Strange Fire messages from John McArthur, but after the 4th, I was done. It has become more legalism. Not only that, but he brushes EVERY single so-called charismatic church with the same brush of error. It’s just not so. Some of his tenets directly contradicted what Paul said in I Corinthians. While I do believe we can put too much emphasis on the gifts and not the Giver, I do believe that God does use those gifts today in places where the Gospel is beginning to make inroads. (3rd world countries, etc.) It validates the Biblical record. While I agree that so much of what we see today IS ERROR, outright and easy to prove Biblically, I feel that one cannot totally deny the gifts. What we see in American charismatic churches, for the most part, is error. But there are some good churches who have kept their doctrine pure and they are good Bereans...examining the Scriptures to see if a doctrine be false or True. You cannot call ALL charismatic churches false.
hmmmm.... I agree, too.
Here’s my summary of the SF conference: The teaching was good and accurate.
The application, not so. For example, there was a denigration of modern worship music (i.e. “we’re hymn people” attitude).
Also, there was a criticism by MacArthur of Chuck SMith and Calvary Chapel since they allowed “hippies” to come to church and wear T-shirts and sandals.
MacArthur did a great job teaching, then threw out some very childish applications.
My $0.02.
BUT BUT BUT, I will be much more bold in denouncing the ERROR in the ‘Flamin’ Strangers’.....
... they are as bad or worse than the lds in their error (i.e. Copeland, Capps, Dollar, Hinn, Osteen, etc. etc.).