charismatic heresy

UNMASKING THE CHARISMATIC HERESY "For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths" 2 Timothy 4:3-4 - "False messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders in order to mislead, if that were possible, the elect" Mark 13: 22 - "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church" Pope Paul VI

11.19.2006

RECRUITING




Eventually every prayer group dwindles in numbers and when a number of Life in the Spirit Seminars fail to bring an infusion of new blood, the prayer group looks to different venues.

One motto is ‘feed them and they will come’.


The Prayer Breakfast

They now hold prayer breakfasts with popular speakers. Except there is no mention about the prayer group or charismata, so the unsuspecting parishioner goes to the Prayer Breakfast to hear his beloved former bishop. The former bishop gives a good talk, but - surprise, surprise - the former bishop talks about charismata. Even seasoned ex-charismatics can fall for it some of the time, especially if they forget to check who the contact person is of the said event.

And they are getting sneakier. I once signed up for a Saturday event; the way it was worded in the bulletin led me to believe I was going to a 'Bible Study'. They didn’t exactly call it a 'Bible Study'... but it was implied. Imagine my discomfort when I realized I landed in the middle of a ‘Life in the Spirit Seminar’. Everyone was so happy to see me again I didn’t have the nerve to leave.

I was passing by a well known group in the church parking lot the other day when I overheard the following comment: “But make sure they don’t announce it that the prayer group is putting it on” I guess this works. That and some of us are slow learners.

at 19.11.06

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I am a recovering charismatic and a Catholic Orthodox; observing orthopraxis to the best of my ability. I acknowledge what the Church REALLY DOES TEACH; opposed to what some people erroneously say the Church teaches. “Catholic Orthodoxy” is proposed "to conform to the Catholic faith as taught by the Magisterium of the Church. So an "orthodox" person is one who is FAITHFUL to the teachings of the Church, whereas a "heterodox" person is somebody who rejects ANY Catholic dogma. Orthopraxis means "Performing the correct actions". Catholic Orthodoxy is defined by the Catechism: it tells us what we have to TO BELIEVE. Catholic Orthopraxis is denoted by the Code of Canon Law: it spells out what we have TO DO. Because “Truth is not determined by a majority vote" -- Pope Benedict XVI.

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