CHARISMATIC VS TRADITIONAL CHURCH ( I )

Recently Charismatic movement is incessantly. Charismatic which is come from Pentecost propagation is become more interested by Christian community, because it use more energetic and inspiring liturgy and use Holy Spirit gifts more in church.

While traditional church doesn't have significance development from time to time, with the result that Christian from traditional church moves to charismatic church. This movement is not a problem, because everyone has the right to choose a place in where they can go to worship.

The problem is, recently an offended bad image of traditional church circulating in charismatic community, i.e.:
"Traditional church doesn't have Holy Spirit"

This word is hurting traditional church community, because by stamping/labeling 'No Holy Spirit' is same with treating traditional church same as Satan’s church. Because no Holy Spirit, no God, means Satan is presence.

Well, so Indonesia people who were preached become Christian before charismatic is presence, who is confessed already that Jesus is God, comes from where......? Is it come from Satan?

Oh please charismatic people use your brain, who does the mission in Indonesia along this time? Are you who claimed as charismatic people? Do you know the age of traditional church like HKBP (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan) you humiliate this church doesn't have Holy Spirit? They are 146 years old. Were there charismatic people during that time?
AND THEN... WHEN DO CHARISMATIC PEOPLE SPREAD THE GOSPEL? ARE CHARISMATIC SPREAD THE GOSPEL ALL THIS TIME?

GPIB is 59 years old, which name previously ' De Protestantse Kerk in Westelijk Indonesie'. There are some old traditional churches share great contributions in spreading Christian religion in Indonesia.

So, use your brain when you speak, don't use your knee to think. You must be forgetting if your grandpa/ grandma, opa/oma, ompung, eyang, mbah, aki etc, grew from traditional church.

Or are you the infidel/ unbeliever who become a Christian? Or maybe you come from Satan church who intended to break Christian in Indonesia into many pieces?

As written at this verse

Jude 1:19 :
"These are the people who cause divisions, who are controlled by their natural desires,
who do not have the Spirit.”

Do you know the Bible verse says

1 Cor 12:3:
"I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say "A curse on Jesus!"
And no one can confess "Jesus is Lord," without being guided by the Holy Spirit".

The author at this time is going to charismatic church, but since baby up till knowing Jesus personally the author went to traditional church. What the author sees recently is: there are troublemakers in church who are trying to break Christian both in traditional and charismatic church.

Actually going to any church is just same because the Bible says "Though we are many; but we are one body". So try from right now not to judge the church which is not same with yours.

Just begin your life knowing Jesus personally, be diligent to read the Bible and memorize it, and also become an intercessor for God. Let traditional church go with its way/ liturgy, so charismatic church does,

because the Bible says in:

Psalm 53:2-3:

"Psa 53:2 God looks down from heaven at people to see
if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.

Psa 53:3 But they have all turned away; they are all equally bad.
Not one of them does what is right, not a single one. ".

And the Bible continue with the Word

1 John 1:8 :
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us."

Well, brothers & sisters, we are all sinner. Thank God, Jesus had redeemed us of our sins. So stop considers us or our group or our church better than the others. Let God judges when the time is coming, whether you and I are right or wrong before Him?

To Be Continued to Chapter TWO

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