For about 8 years I was part of a church that would be considered charismatic. During those years I was in services and heard teaching that you would expect in a charismatic setting. Things like prophecy, speaking in tongues and hearing form God.
Recently I have left the institutional church and in light of the recent Sara Palin video and watching the movie Religulous, I have begun to question some of those previous experiences.
With a critical eye I can see how some of that I experience and was tough was just plain strange, and somewhat unhealthy. But then again, one time I had a very real experience that I can only classify as a baptism of the Holy Spirit.
What is one to do when their objective observations and real experiences clash.
Thus the paradox of following Jesus.
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