Drell’s Descants

Read it all. He is talking about the theological weakness of Pentacostalism. A snippit:

Classical Pentecostals need to think about this. One things we talk about the most in our circle is “the Pentecostal distinctive,†which is typically cited as the “Baptism of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues as the initial, physical evidence.†This is the Pentecostal distinctive above all others.

However, one of the “tags†we’ve long been known by, or called ourselves by at the least, has been “Full Gospel,†as a way of saying, we’re completely dependent on the Bible as God’s revealed will and plan.

In fact, at our movement’s inception, at Parham’s prompting of several adult students, the Baptism of the Spirit was experienced as a result of an intensive study of Scripture. Scripture came first, experience and doctrine came out of that.

Somewhere, we’ve lost our way.

As long as a single doctrine holds sway in our Fellowship as the single Pentecostal distinctive, we cannot be fully reliant on the Scriptures as our guide for faith, doctrine, and practice. We need to maintain our true distinctive, and that is: sola scriptura.

Rich just needs to meet Martyn Minns or Geoff Schmitt, and then it would be all over…