Pick Up A Response To Charismatic Chaos: Vinyard Position Paper #5 Fashioned By Rich Nathan Displayed As EPub

there was "Strange Fire" there was "Charismatic Chaos", Cleveland Vineyard Pastor Rich Nathan does a masterful job of exposing the logical fallacies, bad arguments, sloppy scholarship, and run away presuppositionalism and confirmation bias of John MacArthur'swell known polemic opus.


Nathan's piece is so well done and effective that I was able to cite it in my critique of MacArthur's follow up AntiCharismatic book entitled " Strange Fire".
As they say, "The more things change, the more they stay the same, "

That said, the work isn't perfect and is hampered by a lack of quality footnoting that made citing from it nearly a quarter of a century later difficult.
For example, Nathan cites statistics from now deceased period Christian demographer David Barrett that are now impossible to fully vet since the EXACT source and Barrett was VERY prolific isn't named.
In a similar fashion he cites directly from then well known, now largely forgotten Church Historian's Russell Spittler's "helpful history of the Pentecostal movement" without actually naming the work.
And the Spittler quote IS a great but

I ultimately couldn't cite it in my work because tracking it down and vetting it given Nathan's sparse clues proved impossible.


But quibbles aside this is a great work which can easily be found for free by googling on the title, I not only recommend it but will be republishing in it's entirety on my website into ensure that it never disappears,

Given the fact that John MacArthur's Strange Fire camp is relentless in it's AntiCharismatic campaigning I suspect that come another quarter of a century this work will STILL be relevant.
Rich Nathan has been the senior Pastor of the Vineyard Church of Columbus since, Rich was raised in conservative Judaism and converted to Christianity at the age of, Prior to pastoring, Rich was an assistant professor of business law at The Ohio State University for five years, Rich has served on the National Board of Vineyard: A Community of Churches for than a decade and is a the Large Church Task Force Coordinator for the Vineyard.
He is a popular national and international conference speaker, .