I'm happy to call Vatican Affiliates et al
FOYF Folks Of Your Fellowship
or
Vaticans et al
OR
something else agreeable.
I'm not willing to use a label I consider heretical, sinfully arrogant, historically inaccurate--i.e. a historical lie etc.
And, just as most of the rabid Vaticans et al cliques have 1,001 things that their posting style and !!!!CONTROL!!!! PHREAQUE !!!!DEMANDS!!!!! about Trinitarian Protty Christians !!!!REQUIREMENTS!!!! to kowtow, submit, grovel, kiss toes, bow and scrape before the INSTITUTIONAL ALTAR of Romanism etc . . . . just as they indicate that they have 1,001 things that are NON-NEGOTIABLE,
This issue and my now deep seated convictions about it, are non-negotiable.
Doesn't mean I love anyone any less. Doesn't mean I respect anyone any less. Just means I've been forced to draw a line in the sand and I've drawn it, as best as I can discern, where The Lord would have me draw it.
I hope that's clearer.
But what are we to do? I think the label Pentecostal or Charismatic is misapplied often, becuase in my view ecclesiology, right ecclesiology, is an essential part of the entire saving work of Christ.
I'm remembering in the book Prince Caspian when Peter, true King of Narnia, writes his challenge to Mizar he uses this language "Styling himself King of Narnia." It seems to me that when we ask to be called Catholic, or you ask to be called Pentecostal or Charismatic it is, so to speak, "pending a final determination." I don't think that by acknowledging what we call ourselves and, for the time being, provisionally, using our self-bestowed title, you are ceding anything at all to our claims.
It just saves time and bandwidth and we don't have to go around saying stuff like "the conventicle formally known as Catholic/Charismatic/Pentecostal/whatever."