What is it about Charismatics?

I have notice something about the evangelical/charismatic church, we blindly follow leaders. I followed the same guy for 17 years so I am as guilty as the next per fitter. When I attended the charismatic group for which I once belonged I heard many times that bad things happen to those people who left the group. Talk about fear motivation and this coming from the same guy who would tell me things the “Lord” said to him about me. I noticed that none of those things ever happened, whatever happened to the stoning of false prophets. That would shout up most Charismatics quickly. Anywho, I was just thinking about all those years I would jump from one Bible teacher to the next looking for the great leader. I caught myself doing it again when I would listen to these two guys who produce a weekly podcast about their version of Christianity. I was straightened out when one of the guys went after John Calvin, it was basically slander. Why can the guy at the pulpit say anything he wants? Whatever happened to the love Christ talked so much about.

Once again I realized that I had fallen for the same old trap of hero worship so prevalent in the evangelical/charismatic churches. Immediately Father began showing me a whole new (Old) world of Eastern Orthodox Faith and I made the decision to pursue gift to see where it would lead. My goal in all this is to determine if the Ancient Church was so controlled by the guy at the pulpit or was the center of the worship upon the Triune God. It should be an interesting test.