What is disturbing … is the way places like Brownsville and Toronto, themselves representing very different theological and spiritual motifs, are mimicked uncritically. Susceptibility to only the latest and the sensational demonstrates an adolescent spirituality; one that is demonstrably ill prepared for the vagaries and mundanities of normal Christian living. Moreover, it encourages a fascination with the novel that weakens the tenacity and perseverance required for the challenging missiological setting the charismatic-Evangelical church finds itself in.
[Ian Stackhouse, Revival, Faddism and the Gospel, in Andrew Walter and Kristin Aune (eds.), On Revival: A Critical Examination (Paternoster, 2003), p242]
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