lol. he does not get it. The more he posts the more he separates himself from all others. even his own are starting to question him.
come on EG.
you're not limiting God are you? putting Him in a box? blapsheming the Holy Spirit?
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GET OUT OF YOUR MIND
To the contrary, Charles and Frances Hunter tell us not to test it, but to go whole-hog:
"Could this be the way God is bringing us into the final great revival before the return of Jesus? Whether it is or not, we can feel the Holy Spirit moving -- and we're going right along with Him! Don't stick your toe in to test the water! Don't wait! Jump all the way into this flowing river" (Holy Laughter, p. 159).
Really? Just jump in? Don't test it? Don't wait? This is contrary to Scripture; it is the same tactic used by cultists to intimidate candidates to follow their way. Don't use your mind:
"We always need to be completely open to the move of the Holy Spirit and never be so closed that we cannot see that God might be doing something so fresh and new today that there is not way our finite minds can understand it! Let's just enjoy it an not try to figure out God" (Holy Laughter, p. 103).
The Hunter's language indicated that they themselves aren't all that positive about this thing. They use the phrases, "whether or not," and "God might be doing something." Yet they insist that we not test what they are promoting. This is characteristic of most of the major proponents of holy laughter, including Rodney Howard-Browne:
"Howard-Browne disparages those who try to apply a theological test to his methods. 'You can't understand what God is doing in these meetings with an analytical mind,' he says. 'The only way you're going to understand what God is doing is with your heart'" (Julia Duin, "Praise the Lord and pass the New Wine," 8/94, Charisma, p.26).
But the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9) -- even the heart of the born again believer in Jesus. This is why Scripture exhorts us to examine ourselves and to judge ourselves. Our self-life is still part of the unredeemed flesh.
Scripture warns us repeatedly not only not to trust our hearts, but to keep a sound mind and to test everything that comes in the name of Christ. When lauding the Bereans for searching after truth, Luke tells us that they "received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11).
Readiness of mind is important to discerning truth from error. Those who tell us not to trust our minds are not to be trusted. No true minister of God would tell us such a thing.
Holy Laughter - Rodney Howard-Browne and the Toronto Blessing
