Letter to Adrian Warnock 7/21/2006
Written by Mike Young on July 26, 2006 at 6:50 am
Dear Adrian,
I’ve just been introduced to your site via the most recent post at
Pyromaniacs. As is my custom, I always like to see the background of
those who peruse and participate in this and other blogs I happen to
participate.
In looking over your site, I could not help but notice the term
reformed charismatic. Quite frankly, this term would probably generate
a few awkward stares from many of the folks I know.
I guess my reason for sending you this note, is that while I may be
unfamiliar with the combination, I am also comforted by it as well.
You see, I once worked as the Chief Information Officer of a
reasonable sized christian education company. During my tenure, I was
befriended by a man who was the Dean of the School of Education for
Oral Roberts. I actually met him because he sat on the board for the
accreditation firm we were working with.
Anyway, this individual changed my perspective of Charismatics and was
a significant help to me in turning away from the Cultural
Fundamentalist dogma, that I felt enslaving me, over to the reformed
doctrine I lovingly embrace today.
Whenever I tried to describe this man and his influence to my reformed
brothers, I simply received the same stairs and disbelief as of the
fundamentalists whom I departed. Eventually, I stopped trying to
convince anyone that such a creature could possibly exist. I must have
been imagining it.
Now, as a result of reviewing your site, I come to find out there
really is such a thing. And I rejoice to know that. For while the
church I now call home may appear to be Baptist in so many ways, it
actually had its origins as a Church of Christ.
It is indeed nice to know that there are others given over to such
doctrines of grace; and that no denomination has such a lock on the
truth. And thanks for tearing down yet another stereotype.
May God bless your ministry,
I’ve just been introduced to your site via the most recent post at
Pyromaniacs. As is my custom, I always like to see the background of
those who peruse and participate in this and other blogs I happen to
participate.
In looking over your site, I could not help but notice the term
reformed charismatic. Quite frankly, this term would probably generate
a few awkward stares from many of the folks I know.
I guess my reason for sending you this note, is that while I may be
unfamiliar with the combination, I am also comforted by it as well.
You see, I once worked as the Chief Information Officer of a
reasonable sized christian education company. During my tenure, I was
befriended by a man who was the Dean of the School of Education for
Oral Roberts. I actually met him because he sat on the board for the
accreditation firm we were working with.
Anyway, this individual changed my perspective of Charismatics and was
a significant help to me in turning away from the Cultural
Fundamentalist dogma, that I felt enslaving me, over to the reformed
doctrine I lovingly embrace today.
Whenever I tried to describe this man and his influence to my reformed
brothers, I simply received the same stairs and disbelief as of the
fundamentalists whom I departed. Eventually, I stopped trying to
convince anyone that such a creature could possibly exist. I must have
been imagining it.
Now, as a result of reviewing your site, I come to find out there
really is such a thing. And I rejoice to know that. For while the
church I now call home may appear to be Baptist in so many ways, it
actually had its origins as a Church of Christ.
It is indeed nice to know that there are others given over to such
doctrines of grace; and that no denomination has such a lock on the
truth. And thanks for tearing down yet another stereotype.
May God bless your ministry,
Mike
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