Nah. It's a WoF problem.
All WoFers are Pentecostal/Charismatic.
All Pentecostal/Charismatic are not WoFers.
All WoFers are Pentecostal/Charismatic.
All Pentecostal/Charismatic are not WoFers.
I agree with this! Gordon Fee is a Greek scholar who is Pentecostal, and has fine excellent work exposing the Word Faith heresy for the sham it is!
I was Pentecostal the first 15 years after I was saved. I got tired of the excesses, and left. Although in retrospect, it was not the Pentecostal meetings, as much the healing, revival meetings, which were dominated by WoF people looking for "more!" As if God himself was not enough, these believers constantly needed signs and wonders to affirm their faith.
In retrospect, I was not being fed in Pentecostal churches! The pastors simply were not as well trained in the Word, and hermeneutics. Plus, God opened up the opportunity for me to go to seminary, where I really was able to examine my beliefs in light of the Word, in non-charismatic churches.
I'm pretty sure my supposed speaking in tongues was just babbling, coming out of over emotionalism, and wanting to be like everyone else. I certainly don't practice it anymore. Although, certainly there are other gifts that the Holy Spirit gives, like in Romans 12!
"For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness." Romans 12:3-8
I never understood why Pentecostals don't use this gift list, instead of 1 Corinthians 12! It might save a lot of argument over the word "glossa" in Greek, which means "languages, as much as the KJV and versions which follow the KJV want it to be "tongues!" (OK, tongues could be a language to speak to God, I just read a 20 page tome on 1 Cor. 12:10, not going to argue about whether it died out or not! Just that it died out in my life!)