Michael Brown’s Authentic Fire, reviewed by Loren Sandford
Anyone taking an honest look at the mainstream of the Charismatic Movement will see that charismatics and Pentecostals have made huge contributions to the cause of the gospel in every area of endeavor from theology to education, from welfare work to missions, from evangelism to church planting. Here in Michael Brown’s work you find an effective summary of much of what charismatics and Pentecostals have done to further the cause of Christ. It is both scholarly and effective.
I would recommend Authentic Fire to anyone seeking a balanced view of what is really going in the mainstream of the Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements. Unfortunately, many of the abuses cited by MacArthur and acknowledged by Michael Brown have been perpetrated by those who dominate Christian media. In reality, according to Michael Brown, this constitutes a minority element. I agree. Domination of the media by unbalanced presentations and poor theology has created a false impression of the movement and it is this that MacArthur uses to characterize the whole. Michael Brown eloquently and thoroughly exposes the imbalance in perceptions this creates and irrefutably documents the truth of what the majority of Charismatics and Pentecostals are really about.
Reviewed by R. Loren Sandford
Category: Spirit, Spring 2014
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