In the last Aspasturjohn podcast episode, episode 216, you focused on the doctrinal and

emotional abuses in the charismatic movement, but you said there's other abuses to address.

What are some other abuses that caused you concern, Pastor John?

What I said was less we'd be harder on charismatics than on non-charismatics.

We must keep in mind that all the abuses I'm mentioning, these have their counterparts,

their mirror image in the non-charismatic churches as well.

So in the previous podcast, we focused on doctrinal abuses and emotional abuses.

And I would say that non-charismatics taken as a whole, all the Christians who don't

practice the gifts, are far more guilty of these than charismatics.

Think of all the doctrinal errors in the history of the church.

Those aren't charismatics, by and large.

Think of all the dying mainline churches today with all their moral and doctrinal aberrations.

These aren't charismatics.

And think of the emotional deadness in thousands of non-charismatic evangelical and mainline

churches.

Those are deadly emotional abuses.

And we just need to remember that if we target the charismatic church because of things

that are happening there, doctrineally and emotionally, let's remember the mirror image

which are equally deadly are happening among non-charismatic churches as well.

So here, let me mention two more abuses.

There was doctrinal, then there was emotional, now I'd add discernment abuses or lack of

discernment abuses.

...