charismatic Adventism

Charismatic Adventists are a segment of Adventism, specifically the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as well as some other Adventist denominations, such as the Adventist Church of Promise and the International Missionary Society of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement, that is closely related to "Progressive Adventism", a liberal movement within the church.

Beliefs

= Music =

Like progressive Adventists, charismatics are typically open to a variety of styles of worship music in church including Contemporary Christian Music.{{Cite journal

|title=Beating Up on Upbeat Music

|journal=Adventist Today

|volume=9

|issue=5

|publisher=Adventist Today Foundation

|location=Loma Linda, CA

|issn=1079-5499

|date=September 2001

|url=http://www.atoday.com/magazine/2001/09/beating-upbeat-music

|access-date=2007-11-20

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120085309/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/2001/09/beating-upbeat-music

|archive-date=2008-11-20

}}"[http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1997/03/when-ck-isnt-calvin-klein-0 When cK isn't Calvin Klein] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070624024929/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1997/03/when-ck-isnt-calvin-klein-0 |date=2007-06-24 }}" by Alissa Rouse, who describes attending an Audio Adrenaline concert.

=Speaking in tongues=

Adventists commonly believe that speaking in tongues refers to speaking in earthly languages not known to the user, so the user could communicate to those from distant lands, so it is always for a purpose. Not to ecstatic speech or a personal prayer language or similar as practiced by many charismatic and Pentecostal Christians. The 1991 National Church Life Survey in Australia found that approximately 5% of Australian Adventists approve of and/or speak in tongues, whereas 11% have no opinion and approximately 85% disapprove. This was the highest disapproval rating amongst all denominations surveyed.{{Cite book

| last = Kaldor

| first = Peter

|author2=John Bellamy|author3=Ruth Powell|author4=Merilyn Correy|author5=Keith Castle

| title = Winds of Change: The Experience of Church in a Changing Australia

| publisher = Lancer books

| year = 1994

| pages = 76

| isbn = 0-85892-536-2

}} An Adventist with an acceptance for charismatic experiences could be considered progressive in one sense, particularly because traditional and mainstream Adventist views reject the Pentecostal and charismatic movements.{{Cite book

| last = Bruinsma

| first = Reinder

| title = The Body of Christ: An Adventist Understanding of the Church

| publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association

| year = 2009

| location = Hagerstown, Maryland

| pages = 80, 81

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CTjhQryjPNgC&dq=%22speaking+in+tongues%22%2C+adventist&pg=PA80

| isbn = 978-0-8280-2488-4}}

=Fundamental Beliefs=

Although belief "17. Spiritual Gifts and Ministries" of the official 28 Fundamental Beliefs of Adventists affirms that spiritual gifts do continue into the present.{{Cite web

| title = Fundamental Beliefs

| publisher = Seventh-day Adventist Church

| url = http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html

| access-date = 2008-08-18

| archive-date = 2006-03-10

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060310104717/http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html

| url-status = dead

}}. See "17. Spiritual Gifts and Ministries" Adventists more often limit it to the ability to speak unlearned human languages, or "xenoglossy"; and have generally rejected the form of tongues practised by many charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, described as ecstatic speech or a "personal prayer language".Bacchiocchi concurs in End Time Issues #194 and #195 below Supporting this position is Gerhard Hasel, who believed the practice refers to unknown human languages only, and not angelic languages nor ecstatic speech.Gerhard Hasel. Speaking in Tongues: Biblical Speaking in Tongues and Contemporary Glossolalia. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Adventist Theological Society, 1991 ([http://atsjats.org/transaction_detail.php?id=15 publisher's page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725022634/http://www.atsjats.org/transaction_detail.php?id=15 |date=2011-07-25 }}); as quoted in the Handbook. One [http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/AUSS/AUSS19940401-V32-01,02__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=139 review] (DjVu) is by Herbert Kiesler. Andrews University Seminary Studies 32:1–2 (Spring–Summer 1994), p137–138 His document has been frequently cited by Adventists. The Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology takes the position that speaking in tongues refers to "previously unlearned human languages" (xenoglossy), using the experience on the day of Pentecost in {{bibleverse||Acts|2|NIV}} as the "criterion" for later interpretation."Spiritual Gifts" by George E. Rice in Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology, edited by Raoul Dederen; p616–17. See also p648 for selected Ellen White quotations David Asscherick also believes tongues are xenoglossy only."What the Bible Says About Speaking in Tongues" [DA106] by David Asscherick. [http://www.hopevideo.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=215 Presentation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712215820/http://www.hopevideo.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=215# |date=2011-07-12 }} available for purchase See also other Adventist commentators."Tongues in Early Adventism" by William Fagal. Adventists Affirm 1997, v11, p26–34

History

=Modern=

Few modern Adventist individuals and churches have charismatic leanings, or practice speaking in tongues, after coming into contact with its practices such as in the "Holy Flesh movement" in Indiana around the turn of the 19th century which Ellen White quickly rebuked."[http://sdadefend.com/Defend-foundation/counsel-Celebation.htm 2nd Selected Messages, p. 36-38., Ellen White] Some claim they see evidence in some teachings on holiness by medical doctor John Harvey Kellogg, and Jones and Waggoner of 1888 fame.{{cite web

| last = Patrick

| first = Arthur

| author-link = Arthur Patrick

| title = Later Adventist Worship, Ellen White and the Holy Spirit: Further Historical Perspectives

| work = Spiritual Discernment Conference

| publisher = SDAnet AtIssue

| date = c. 1999

| url = http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/discern/flesh.htm

| access-date = 2008-02-15

}} Jon Paulien describes "the Montanists regarded as heresy, early charismatics who believed that every Christian was

as inspired as the apostles or the Scriptures. The focus on the Spirit as the key to church life is

now mirrored by some in Adventist circles as well."{{cite conference

| first = Jon

| last = Paulien

| author-link = Jon Paulien

| title = Questions on Doctrine and the Church: Present and Future

| url = http://qod.andrews.edu/docs/21_jon_paulien.pdf

}} See Questions on Doctrine 50th anniversary conference In September 1999 "Discerning the Spirit" conferences were held in the Australian part of the church.{{Cite web

| last = Patrick

| first = Arthur

| author-link = Arthur Patrick

| title = Early Adventist worship, Ellen White and the Holy Spirit: Preliminary Historical Perspectives

| work = Spiritual Discernment Conference

| publisher = SDAnet AtIssue

| date = c. 1999

| url = http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/discern/holyspirit.htm

| access-date = 2008-02-15

}} Adventist churches with charismatic leanings are very rare and controversial within the denomination, and rejected on the whole.One example, {{Cite journal

| last = Tinker

| first = Colleen Moore

| title = Washington Conference Disfellowships Independent Pastor

| journal = Adventist Today

| volume = 6

| issue = 2

| pages =

| publisher = Adventist Today Foundation

| location = Loma Linda, CA

| issn = 1079-5499

| date = March 1998

| url = http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1998/03/washington-conference-disfellowships-independent-pastor-0

| access-date = 2008-02-15

| url-status = dead

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090921020142/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1998/03/washington-conference-disfellowships-independent-pastor-0

| archive-date = 2009-09-21

}} New Life Celebration church was one of the earliest Adventist "celebration churches".{{Cite journal

| last = Tinker

| first = Colleen Moore

| title = Oregon Pastor Resigns

| journal = Adventist Today

| volume = 6

| issue = 1

| pages =

| publisher = Adventist Today Foundation

| location = Loma Linda, CA

| issn = 1079-5499

| date = January 1998

| url = http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1998/01/oregon-pastor-resigns-0

| access-date = 2008-02-15

| url-status = dead

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090921011135/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1998/01/oregon-pastor-resigns-0

| archive-date = 2009-09-21

}} Some such churches have had tension with the Adventist leadership,For example, {{Cite journal

| last = Daily

| first = Steve

| title = The Anatomy of a Defrocking

| journal = Adventist Today

| volume = 6

| issue = 3

| pages =

| publisher = Adventist Today Foundation

| location = Loma Linda, CA

| issn = 1079-5499

| date = May 1998

| url = http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1998/05/anatomy-defrocking-0

| access-date = 2008-02-15

| url-status = dead

| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130117071923/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1998/05/anatomy-defrocking-0

| archive-date = 2013-01-17

}} and some have left the Adventist denomination. Retired Australian Adventist pastor, evangelist and former official of the Greater Sydney Conference, E. Bruce Price has criticized the churches, which he says were introduced to the world Adventist church in the 1980s.[http://mediaset.sdasofia.org/MEDIA%20SET/LASTNEWS/BOOKS/Here_we_stand.pdf Price, E. Bruce (2005). Are the Churches Really Growing? Church Growth Experiments in Secular Australia. Here We Stand: Evaluating New Trends in the Church. Samuel Koranteng-Pipim (ed.) Berrien Springs, Michigan. Adventists Affirm/Review and Herald Graphics, p. 23-36]"[http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/endtimeissues/et_130.htm Church Growth Experiments in Secular Australia]" by E. Bruce Price in Here We Stand: Evaluating New Trends in the Church edited by Samuel Koranteng-Pipim. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Adventists Affirm, 2005. {{ISBN|0-9677622-1-9}} ([http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/transaction_detail.php?id=1 publisher's page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520105601/http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/transaction_detail.php?id=1 |date=2008-05-20 }}). Chapter republished in Samuele Bacchiocchi's Endime Issues Newsletter No. 130 According to Adventist historians Bull and Lockhart, "Adventist worship is generally restrained and carefully organized".{{Cite book

| author = Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart

| title = Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream

| publisher = Indiana University Press

| year = 2006

| location = Bloomington, Indiana

| pages = 221

| edition = 2nd

| isbn = 978-0-253-21868-1

}}

References

Books:

G. Edward Reid, Battle of the Spirits, {{ISBN|0-9711134-0-8}}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100818200118/http://drpipim.org/prayer-warriors-contemporaryissues-52.html Counterfeit Revivals]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20101202235924/http://www.audioverse.org/sermons/seriess/261/samuel-koranteng-pipim-trojan-horses.html Ancient Future: Counterfeit Revivals And The New Spirituality Movement (Audio Sermons)]
"[http://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/documents/Ecclesiology/Holmes-church%20&%20worship.pdf The Church and Worship]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}" by C. Raymond Holmes. Biblical Research Institute
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20100711201745/http://www.drpipim.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=48 Applause, Hand Waving and Drumming In The Church]" by Samuel Pipim
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224743/http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/article.php?id=72 Shall We Dance?]" by Adventist Scholar Samuele Bacchiocchi
"[http://whiteestate.org/issues/music.html Music: Its Role, Qualities, and Influence as Set Forth in the Writings of Ellen G. White]". Ellen G. White Estate, compiled 1972
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224800/http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/article.php?id=69 Worship, Radical Ritual], by C. Raymond Holmes. Biblical Research Institute

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