Challenge accepted!
Ok so, the premise is that an atheist received a sign from God because a teenager did a cartwheel based on the prompting of the Holy Ghost and this somehow legitimizes pentecostal gatherings? Seems to me that's taking the thing too far. If someone was in a strip club and said "God, I'll believe You're there if that girl puts her clothes back on" does that mean we're supposed to start meeting in the strip club during business hours?
Conversely suppose the same atheist in the strip club says "I'll believe in God if that girl takes her clothes off" I'd put that at about the same likelihood that someone is going to do a cartwheel across the stage at a pentecostal gathering; I'd be more surprised if it didn't happen than if it did. (There, snarky snipey provided as requested. I hope it was everything you expected. :))
Ok... yes I just compared attending pentecostal services to going to a strip club. I went there... er, to the analogy, not to the strip club. My point is only that the one thing doesn't necessarily legitimize the other.
I got a little distracted by this when I was writing my response. I was looking for the story of Alphonse Ratisbonne so I could point out that his "miraculous" conversion probably wouldn't convince you that Catholicism is legitimate either.
Yup.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, too.
However, nowhere in my post did I assert that the cartwheels legitimized anything per se.
I believe Holy Spirit was in that sequence of things.
I have experienced and observed Holy Spirit do wonderous things in some of our services.
I’ll leave it at that.