Traditions… you can get a glimpse of them in the scripture: water baptism, communion service, the moving of the Spirit in meetings, the sharing of goods, fellowship meals, prayer meetings, evangelistic crusades. Each district seems to have their own slant and emphasis. Things are fine until you try to cross every ‘T’ and dot every ‘i’. When that happens exclusion of people begins and the church is fractured. As charismatics we know that there is a danger of quenching the Spirit when we try to squeeze the Spirit through a traditions knot hole. Traditions do have a place and can be beneficial. Yet, it is dangerous to carve it in stone as the finger of God did when he wrote on the tables of stone that Moses provided.
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