[Religion Moderator]

Thank you, sitetest.

To recap, for the purpose of forming a "Charismatic Caucus" on the Religion Forum, the term Charismatic refers to Freepers who believe in personally manifest gifts of the Holy Spirit including but not limited to present day prophecies spoken in first person. Other gifts would include speaking in tongues, faith healing, etc.

The belief may be held by Pentecostals, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, and so on.

[Petronski]

I don’t think that, just on principle, there ought to be changes from open to caucus five hours after a thread is started:

1) Thread is posted
2) Discussion ensues
3) Five hours later the thread is converted to “caucus”
4) Discussion is purged

That’s no way to run a railroad.

[Quix]

Thanks for your tireless and thankless labors to bring and maintain sanity and some effective degree of civility to this forum for Charismatics and Pentecostals as well as the rest of the herd of cats.

I remain unimpressed by . . . some folks’ . . . shrill efforts to sabotage the efforts of those who disagree with their constructions on reality. Throwing dust, noise, the kitchen sink, absurdities to the max into such threads is a stinking pile of cheap shots, to me.

Your criteria for caucuses are clear enough. True, “Charismatic” is somewhat of a tricky bird of rare plumage to apply the caucus structure to because of the nature of Charismania crossing all remotely Christian denominations. However, it’s not THAT difficult.

imho:

Folks trying to rabidly find loop-holes in your criteria that will allow them to disrupt and soil the nest of a Charismatic caucus seem to have a foolishly low estimate of your alertness and comprehensive understanding. They seem to fail to realize that they’ll never get up early enough to out-fox you on such scores. LOL.

Keeping stinking piles of cheap shots out of such threads, imho—as far as I can tell, is far from easy.

It is such a comfort and blessing that God has placed you in such a position on such an important forum. PRAISE GOD.

May He continue to strengthen your Holy Spirit wisdom for all the baby splitting tasks dumped in your lap.

[BlueDragon]

...[those who] believe in personally manifest gifts of the Holy Spirit including but not limited to present day prophecies spoken in first person. Other gifts would include speaking in tongues, faith healing, etc.

I am of that number.