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Caroline said:
Did any of you get the impression that P/C churches generally used fasting kinda like a hunger strike? Like if we were refusing to eat, God would be more likely to give us what we wanted ...

It was my experience that just about everything the Charismatics did and do was to make our God indebted to them in some way, especially by "manifesting gifts". Of course, this is the nature of their upside down Gospel in the first place. They "choose" God with their own free will and then their effeminate God must respond positively and surrender to their own "goodness" (Arminian heresy). <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/surrender.gif" alt="" />

Denny

Romans 3:22-24

This isn't taking away from your experience in the Charismatic movement.
But when I was a Charismatic, although they preached Arminianism, I was not even aware that they were doing so until after I actually left the movement.
I was not given the impression that God was indepted to do anything for us. I was however given the impression that we should jump on God's bandwagon and be "Baptised with Holy Spirit" in order to be more effective Christians.
This was not to say that Christians who were not "baptized in the Holy Spirit" were any less "Christian". It was just that they were missing out on something God intends for all believers.

As far as fasting goes, I think they did it in order to get their minds off of themselves and onto God, because we are usually so earthly focused.

Tom