Apologist4Him
Puritan Board Freshman
If one is from a Reformed/ or a Calvinistic Baptist understanding though, the Theology of the Charismatic church is wrong in so many ways. They do place a premium on witnessing and living for the Lord, and do place a high esteem on the Bible, but there salvation is very free will based, and their views on the second act of grace tends to divide up the church into those who are first rate, and others second rate Christians.
The Aog is the best theology group amomg them, but many of the so called word of faith, modern day Apostles/Prophets, name it and claim it, have moved to be pretty much a heresy within Christendom, at ;east those teaching such doctrines.
True and true. Growing up my parents took me to AoG and a couple of different Baptist Churches (most likely of the Arminan variety). They spent more time with the AoG Church, where I (8 yrs old) had the desire to be saved and did the whole praying the "sinner's prayer" and "accepting Christ as Lord and Savior" decision in front of the Church and Baptized in a swimming pool a couple of months later. Without going into more details, I held to the beliefs of AoG until the age of 28, I had always been one of those second rate Christians. AoG had a few "name it and claim it" types I think but it did not characterize them as a whole. I don't know if the AoG ever recovered fully from the damage done by the Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals. But it definitely left a lasting bad taste in AoG. I could go on but, against all odds, the cards stacked against me, God had His way with me in converting me to Calvinism roughly 15 years ago now. Several years into being a Calvinist, unsure whether I aligned more with Calvinistic Baptists or Presbyterians, I finally settled into identifying as a Confessional Presbyterian.