“Those who bring Christian ideas to the experience assume that the ‘Baptism in the Holy Spirit’ is a Christian experience. But if it can be given to those who merely seek a cheap, easy status experience — then there is no necessary connection whatever between this experience and Christ. The very possibility of an experience of a “Pentecost without Christ” means that the experience in itself is not Christian at all; ‘Christians,’ often sincere and well-meaning, are reading into the experience a Christian content which in itself it does not have.” - Fr. Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
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