Acts 2:16 provides guidance that some well meaning Christians in the Pentecostal movements should have adopted, the attitude that Jesus did and Peter does here. So you have associated with the baptism of the Holy Spirit all sorts of things that are not found in the Bible.
I think we are safe to practice those things that are:
•Seen in the gospels
•Practiced in Acts
•Taught in the Epistles
Let me be very plain here, “I believe if there is any spiritual manifestation or phenomenon taking place it is important that we be able to point to the Word of God. So there is a scriptural basis for what is going on and the way in which it is happening. And if there is not one to be found then the phenomenon or the way it is being practiced is not from God!” You can not use experience as the criteria for truth because then you have to constantly be changing truth to fit the experience! Simply put, “Experience does not interpret truth, truth interprets my experience!”
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