[aron]

Certainly the Bible contains repetitive patterns, and visions. But I note a danger in working oneself to an altered state, in LC verbiage to "exercise your spirit", in that it may lead on paths apart from the Saviour. If the fruit of such exercise is to denigrate scripture as mixed, complex, fallen and natural; to despise and ignore the poor among us in pursuit of "good building material"; to lift up fellow sinners as "deputy God"; to engage in isolationist and judgmental talk continually: these aren't marks of the Holy Spirit but rather bring to mind the apostle's warning that Satan may come as an angel of light. That warm, fuzzy feeling you got as you repetitively yelled the special words - where did it come from?

With the Toronto Blessing/Lakeland Revival/New Apostolic Reformation one saw behaviours unworthy of the name Christian, yet in the frenzy of excitement all restraint, and even common sense, was lost. The LC experience is hardly the bedlam of Lakeland but as the danger is more subtle it's perhaps even more real.