An Open Letter to the Charismatic Movement

Dear Charismatic Movement:

Your beginning is generally thought to be around 1959 when an Episcopal Priest, by the name of Dennis Bennett, experienced the gift of tongues and subsequently began preaching to his congregation what many might label Pentecostal theology. From this Episcopal church, the renewal experience (and various other miraculous experiences) began manifesting in all kinds of denominations and fellowships in remarkable ways all through the ensuing decades. Much of it was needed and genuine. Some of it was fleshly and fake. But no one can deny that in the last 60 years you impacted the face of Christianity globally for both better and worse.

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