Bad Charismatic Habits

Having given my charismatic brothers in Christ a rose (and complementing a response I gave to Alice Linsley here), I wish to now draw their attention to the thorns:

Nine Bad Charismatic Habits

While I appreciate the author's intellectual honesty, my impression is that the bad habits number more than just nine.  This morning I encountered the argument of a woman on an Anglican discussion board that went as follows (and I paraphrase):  "We must accept the practive of women's ordination to the priesthood because my pastor (a woman ordained in the ACNA) received a 'word of knowledge' from someone that she was to become a priest, and oh, by the way, these days we recognize the equality of men and women."

Now, when such private revelations have the effect of sweeping away in one "word" of supposed "knowledge" both the practice of the apostles and the 2,000-year practice of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church, we can be pretty sure that the spirit of false prophecy St. John enjoins us in I Jn. 4:1 to vigilantly discern what was at work in this woman's supposed call to the priesthood.  And if Anglicans are going to continue to say the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds with integrity, and thus profess their belief in the Catholic Church, then they will need to fully embrace the English Reformers' devotion to Her.  As Anglican blogger Death Bredon has succinctly put it, "Anglicanism can, perhaps uniquely, lay equal claim to the appellations Protestant and Catholic and affirm both without any sense of inconsistency or incoherence. Indeed, strictly speaking, in proper understanding of each term, to truly be one, you must be both."

The point is that charismatics, and especially Anglican charismatics, are going to have to shed a number of their their wild and woolly ways  -- or "bad habits" --  if they ever want to join the mainstream of Evangelical Catholicism.