“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal of missions.”

See also: “God’s Spirit or Human Hysteria? My Time Among the Charismatics” (Jeff Robinson) God called me to be a pastor while sitting under the preaching ministry of Creflo A. Dollar. I was raised in the charismatic tradition. Christ called me to himself in a Word of Faith church in Roebuck, Alabama. There I was introduced to Jesus through the ministry of Gospel Bill, Donnie McClurkin, and renditions of Carman’s

See also: “How I Learned to Separate Meat from Bone in the Charismatic Tradition” (Jason Cook) I’ve been a Southern Baptist all my life, and my Pentecostal/charismatic friends in high school good-naturedly referred to my congregation as “the frozen chosen.” I never fully understood what they meant by that phrase until I attended, at the invitation of a friend, a charismatic revival service. At First Baptist Church, we sang