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From the Foreword

This is a book that had to be written. No man is better qualified to write it than Dr. O. Talmadge Spence, who comes out of the historic Pentacostal movement. He is well acquainted with the leaders of traditional Pentacostalism and ably contrasts their attitudes, doctrines, outlooks, and purposes with those of the charismatics today and draws a sharp distinction between sincerity of the traditional Pentacostal leaders and the trickery and dishonesty of the clowns performing in the present charismatic circus. The reader need not hold to the historic Pentacostal doctrines and traditions any more than I do in order to benefit from this book, for this book is not written to promote Pentacostalism or argue its theological tenets. This book is both an historical analysis of the tradition and an exposé of the current emphases.

Any sincere Christian, certainly any Bible-believing, Fundamental Christian, must judge any religious phenomena on the basis of Biblical teaching and Scriptural truth. This is Dr. Spence's standard of judgment. Fundamental Christians will not always agree on matters of doctrinal interpretation; but we must all agree on the infallibility, inspiration, and divine authority of the Book as our standard for faith and practice. I am confident that Dr. Spence has been raised up by God to save many from the insidious and Satanic aberration of the charismatic movement and to warn God's people against it. This book will be bitterly attacked, but not with logic or the Word of God.

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