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Please realize, I'm asking because I don't get this. So don't expect me to ask the question and then give the answer here. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't ask the questions.
And also understand I'd like answers from people who know they are that. If you're not Pentecostal, don't speak for the Pentecostals. They are capable of speaking for themselves.
Okay, that's what I'd like to happen here, (and, yeah, what I'd like to happen is rarely what does happen, but it is what I would like to happen.)
Now my questions for the descriptions people give themselves that I don't get.
When you say "I am Pentecostal," what do you mean by Pentecostal?
When you say, "I am Charismatic," what do you mean by Charismatic?
AND, when you use these words to describe yourself, what are you saying you are not? What is the opposite of what you say you are?
For instance, I'm reformed. That means I do believe in T.U.L.I.P. I do believe that Jesus alone saves. I do not believe that we chose to be saved, so I'm not Wesleyan/Arminian/non-reformed/free-willingian. BUT, I also do not believe this difference determines if a person is saved or not. I think Christ saves, and then we go off and pick different forms of belief systems depending on where we land (which church we head to) after being saved. So, it does describe what I believe, but is not there to put anyone else down on that difference. (Granted, I'll argue all day and all night over the differences, but at least you know I'm not putting you down for disagreeing. lol)
So who wants to help me understand Pentecostal and Charismatic? And can you be one without being the other? And can you be both? Because as often as I've researched the words, I don't get why those particular words mean something special to people who are those words.
(And, do NOT slam other people beliefs, or I WILL send my hug of teddy bears to your house and tickle you for two hours or... until you give them a gross of hotdogs. They really like hotdogs, so you can bribe them. lol)
And also understand I'd like answers from people who know they are that. If you're not Pentecostal, don't speak for the Pentecostals. They are capable of speaking for themselves.
Okay, that's what I'd like to happen here, (and, yeah, what I'd like to happen is rarely what does happen, but it is what I would like to happen.)
Now my questions for the descriptions people give themselves that I don't get.
When you say "I am Pentecostal," what do you mean by Pentecostal?
When you say, "I am Charismatic," what do you mean by Charismatic?
AND, when you use these words to describe yourself, what are you saying you are not? What is the opposite of what you say you are?
For instance, I'm reformed. That means I do believe in T.U.L.I.P. I do believe that Jesus alone saves. I do not believe that we chose to be saved, so I'm not Wesleyan/Arminian/non-reformed/free-willingian. BUT, I also do not believe this difference determines if a person is saved or not. I think Christ saves, and then we go off and pick different forms of belief systems depending on where we land (which church we head to) after being saved. So, it does describe what I believe, but is not there to put anyone else down on that difference. (Granted, I'll argue all day and all night over the differences, but at least you know I'm not putting you down for disagreeing. lol)
So who wants to help me understand Pentecostal and Charismatic? And can you be one without being the other? And can you be both? Because as often as I've researched the words, I don't get why those particular words mean something special to people who are those words.
(And, do NOT slam other people beliefs, or I WILL send my hug of teddy bears to your house and tickle you for two hours or... until you give them a gross of hotdogs. They really like hotdogs, so you can bribe them. lol)