Sentences with phrase «charismatic experiences»

And of course a lot of the women in the 13th and 14th centuries also speak at great length about what we would call charismatic experiences, but so do some male mystics.

The charismatic experience is a «sensation of surrender to an immersion in a larger reality: an experience perceived as self - fulfillment and enhancement of individuality rather than the loss of it» (Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine, People, Power, Change: Movements of Social Transformation [Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1970], 124).

Some Holiness churches, notably the Church of the Nazarene and the Wesleyan Church, have seen high - level administrative rulings against the charismatic movement whose enforcement means virtual excommunication for those professing charismatic experience.

And along with these symptoms of dis - ease with the world, we have devils, exorcism, witchcraft, charismatic experience and the dictum of Pope Paul VI that the devil is real.

Often God has to give us some charismatic experience or perform some tangible sign, a miracle, for us to get moving.

Not exact matches

On the recommendation of a friend, mother and daughter experienced their first charismatic healing service in the rented ballroom of a Holiday Inn in Laurel, Maryland.

Although I was raised in a Christian family and charismatic, fundamentalist church, attended a Bible college, and had professed the Christian faith for years, it wasn't until this experience that my intellectual assent of God's truth became deeply personal.

«One of the reasons the charismatic movement is expanding... apart from salvation, we experience healing, miracles.

BTW, as a Christian I believe in the Trinitarian Mystery and while I realize that «when you get One, you get them all», I have a more intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit than I do with either the Father or Jesus, the Son, even though I don't experience most of the «psychological fireworks» that many Charismatic / Pentecostal Christians frequently do.

I liken the attraction (or obsession) to charismatic / renewal churches and experiences to someone who doesn't have a balanced diet.

As one who has attended a week - long prophetic school, who loves the true prophetic gift, sadly I have to say my experience has been that most of the time it was charismatic fortunetelling in action (Derek Prince's term).

Charismatic movements, for example, easily tend to give too much authority to experience.

I recognize that the growth of the evangelical and charismatic traditions in the churches reflect a similar longing for religious experience.

Much of its recent membership gains have been drawn from charismatics who have left their former churches to find a place of worship more compatible with their new experience.

Unfettered by older Pentecostal history and traditions, these new sects attract experience - hungry charismatics who long for fresh spiritual encounters and who often mistrust institutional church ties.

By the 1960s and 70s the established Anglican and Catholic churches would be experiencing the power of this charismatic renewal; intensifying towards the end of the century with the arrival of John Wimber and his Vineyard Church in the UK, followed by the Toronto Blessing.

The mystic experience, the illumination, the great awakening, along with the charismatic seer who started the whole thing are forgotten, lost or transformed into their opposites.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25999778 «God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God.»

For the record, I wasn't a part of a charismatic religion when I experienced adverse psychological reactions to intense prayer and meditation.

By beginning with the Spirit, we can rediscover charismatic, passionate prayer in the Trinity, which again shifts the emphasis away from scholasticism (male) and toward embodied, even erotic, experience (female).

To forget the charismatic element, or perversely to overemphasise it, leads inevitably to enthusiasm — that was the experience of Methodism in the 18th century and the cause of the rise of Pentecostal sects in the 19th.

He's a firm charismatic a prophetic experience in his teens set him on a course for preaching ministry, and his meaty sermons always put Jesus at the centre.

Today, the term Charismatic is sometimes used more broadly to identify Christians who testify to the Pentecostal experience but are simply not part of one of the classical Pentecostal denominations.

Instead, I believe the new wine that we were experiencing during the charismatic renewal required new wineskins.

These movements, followed by Methodism and the evangelical revival, focused on inner subjective experience, just as the charismatic movements have been doing in the late twentieth century.

She had very high levels of education, a seminary degree, a long history of teaching with many beloved students, but every teacher at her church's education program was a young, charismatic man with half her education, let alone experience, despite their position of welcoming women in ministry.

Add to this the rise of psychotherapy, charismatic transgressivism, and the romantic notion that the experience of full individuality, not the knowledge of individual being, is the source of selfhood, and it's no surprise that the authority of the family as a noble institution has been, if not «blown up», significantly undermined.

When I left the Charismatic Vineyard church over frustrations I experienced there among them being what I regarded as a cavalier exercising of «gifts» causing damage someone came to me with a word of encouragement on my last day.

And whether your church service experience is liturgical, charismatic, traditional, contemporary, church - planty or a house church, you will find true Church — these people — in every single one.

The changes to the performance of the liturgy I experienced at St. Aldate's in the 1990s were part of a broader discussion about the relationship between the charismatic renewal and liturgical renewal.

The mystical and the charismatic, although very different in their outer manifestations, have a similar emphasis on experience of the Spirit of God.

Outside the charismatic world I've experienced church splits and they tend to be ugly, nasty and hurtful but decidedly less spiritual.

The important difference of course is that in the experience of tongues there is no figure of Jesus giving form and content to the coming kingdom, so that the subjectivity of the early charismatic had little to guide it.

Present - day charismatics are right in their insistence that there is an important transition in the Christian life connected with an experience of the Spirit.

The experience of Spirit as I have portrayed it differs from the version offered in Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement.

But since these practices are nearly identical in form and frequency as those done in charismatic circles, these charismatic teachers must be careful about condemning these practices in other religions, for could it not be possible that these other miraculous experiences are also from the Holy Spirit?

If charismatics are right, they must not condemn any miraculous utterance, prophecy, sign, miracle, answer to prayer, or spiritual experience of any person or religious group as being of the devil, for there is no way to be certain when and where the Holy Spirit is blowing (John 3:8).

This appears to be the case also with charismatics, all of whom say that they «know how it feels to repeat and to experience the forgiveness of sins.»

It would be going too far to say that every converted alcoholic (or converted charismatic; for that matter) has such a dazzling spiritual experience.

The spiritual conversion experienced by alcoholics and charismatics is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those who stay with it.

To refer to it as «Christian experience» sounds too easily like a privileging of the revivalist «Northampton» Road or the charismatic «Azusa» Road.

Charismatics from around the world have been flocking to Bethel Church in Redding, California, to experience its ongoing focus on worship, miracles and revival.

Some of these women are or will become clients of Cara Muhlhahn, a charismatic midwife who, between birth events, shares both memories and footage of her own birth experience.

Janet Nezon is a highly experienced and charismatic speaker.

Shedd's Extraordinary Experiences connect guests with the living world through personal encounters with some of the aquarium's most charismatic animals.

Participants in a much - cited psychological study, for instance, were more likely to positively evaluate charismatic leaders after experiencing «mortality salience» than they were when this stimulus was not present.

He can give a great speech, is very charismatic, and has a ton of experience.

If a brilliant and charismatic military General like Emeka Ojukwu could not achieve Biafra i wonder how someone with no military experience even political experience like Nnamdi Kanu can lead the Igbo Nation AGAIN to war against the Nigerian state.

Psilocybin and use of other hallucinogens became popular in the U.S. in the 1960s due to charismatic proponents, who suggested anecdotally that users would experience profound psychological insights and benefits.

I had a brief chance to speak with the charismatic Lindsey — this is her third book and I really enjoyed hearing about her real life experiences and how she dealt with them by making better choices... «This is the only body and life you have, so LOVE IT UP the best you can» --(Food Girl Femifesto).