Weird Fire: How to be Charismatic, Supernatural, and Controversial
I have become born again again!! -just kidding BUT I have returned to my Charismatic roots- for investigation. I have been inspired by a new generation of charismatics that want to move away from the prosperity and superstitious rhetoric, and towards a gospel of healing, prophecy, and reaching the lost. Instead of just dabbling, I am diving headfirst into the charismatic weirdness. No matter how strange, I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt before I snub my religious nose. What you see here may be challenging, but God can work in weird ways. -Weird Fire? Its a play on 'strange fire'. In Lev. 10:1–3, 2 priests were burned up for offering 'strange fire' to the Lord. This story is used by John MacArthur to criticize Charismatics: >"He claims that (xiii) “the many irreverent antics and twisted doctrines brought into the church by the contemporary Charismatic Movement are equal to (or even worse than) the strange fire of Nadab and Abihu.” He