It doesn't have to be either...I was just stating extremes for the sake of making a point. The point being, I would rather be in a church where freedom of the spirit is encouraged as opposed to one where man is in control. If, because of that freedom , there is an occasional person who abuses it, I would prefer that to one where the service is so scheduled, managed, and controlled that the spirit is given no place to move.
Freedom is inherently messy...politically and religiously...but in both cases I would much prefer it to the alternative.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
These movements are powerful as they provide what pious Christians want and no longer receive from the mainstream denominations - a concentration on prayer, a personal relationship with God, a belief in the saving Grace of Christ as the centerpoint and focus of their religious life.
Thus contrasts with the politically correct tolerance for social and moral abberrations mixed with leftist politics which has grown to permeate the mainstrean Christian churchs and infect the heretical doctrinal rubbish a lot of them have been spewing. I hesitate to employ the term heretical as heresy is a mild description. It applies more to people who have religious beleifs in conflict with traditional ones. In recent days, mainstream churches preach a kind of politically correct pablum of universal tolerance that in effect is anti-Judaeo-Christian and hyper-humanist.
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I very fiercely and strongly agree.
Are you saying that in Baptist Churches the "the spirit is given no place to move?"