Rodney Howard Browne

I want to preface that I *think* Holy laughter is stupid, that I have no idea who Rodney Howard Browne is, and that I have little interest following his ministry. I don't think any of the reasons you provided make the condemnation of the man fair or charitable. It does not bother me if new phenomenon strikes a church, or if people get an extreme case of the gigglies, excepting that that phenomenon conflict with Scripture (obviously one should not bring back sacrificing babies to Molech). Your disdain for the practice clearly comes - at least according to your own exposition - from how it makes you *feel*, which is not a measure anyone should take with much gravitas. You almost sound like some 70s suburban housewife who laments that rock and roll and dancing are, by all accounts, of the devil because they are not something you're used to.

If the Spirit evokes in someone raucous laughter, if it evinces the joy that a new being in Christ can have, so emphasized and underscored in one particular Pentecostal church - I see nothing wrong with that. Nothing in Scripture denounces that. I would be much more interested in his doctrinal stances than how he believes the Spirit evidences himself in laughter. Does he believe Jesus died on the cross to atone for the elect? Does he believe Christ actually existed, had two natures, and made it possible for a man to be both justified before God legally, and sanctified and made holy? Does he try to live in obedience to God's Word? These are how I would measure the truth of a man in general

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David Duarte April 7, 2012 at 2:29pm

I think Browne meant that even if the works that were going on at his ministry come right from the devil or if they were influenced by the devil, that it was perfectly fine, because at least something was happening. That at least something was happening at the church instead of the church looking like a "dead church" that had no spirit going on through it. At least some kind of action was going on.
Sven Jacobs April 7, 2012 at 2:16pm

David...but what did he MEAN by that? What was he saying?
David Duarte April 7, 2012 at 7:08am

Browne did admit that if the devil is involved in his ministry, thats perfectly fine though. That to me says a lot.
Sven Jacobs April 7, 2012 at 5:06am

I want to preface that I *think* Holy laughter is stupid, that I have no idea who Rodney Howard Browne is, and that I have little interest following his ministry. I don't think any of the reasons you provided make the condemnation of the man fair or charitable. It does not bother me if new phenomenon strikes a church, or if people get an extreme case of the gigglies, excepting that that phenomenon conflict with Scripture (obviously one should not bring back sacrificing babies to Molech). Your disdain for the practice clearly comes - at least according to your own exposition - from how it makes you *feel*, which is not a measure anyone should take with much gravitas. You almost sound like some 70s suburban housewife who laments that rock and roll and dancing are, by all accounts, of the devil because they are not something you're used to.

If the Spirit evokes in someone raucous laughter, if it evinces the joy that a new being in Christ can have, so emphasized and underscored in one particular Pentecostal church - I see nothing wrong with that. Nothing in Scripture denounces that. I would be much more interested in his doctrinal stances than how he believes the Spirit evidences himself in laughter. Does he believe Jesus died on the cross to atone for the elect? Does he believe Christ actually existed, had two natures, and made it possible for a man to be both justified before God legally, and sanctified and made holy? Does he try to live in obedience to God's Word? These are how I would measure the truth of a man in general

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