The following quote from a Pentecostal minister of the 1960s resonated with me:

"There are many who exercise spiritual gifts (even as the Corinthians did) who are exceedingly carnal. We have allowed our people to assume that gifts are an evidence of being spiritual, when really they are given to babes that they might become spiritual. Proof of this misunderstanding is evident in our Pentecostal churches where fleshly fads and fashions hold sway instead of a godly simplicity of life; where we can only hold attendance by using soulish entertainment; where people live on a constant diet of glamorous personalities who give unique testimonies of their experiences. Yet all the while our folk manifest so little true hunger or appetite for revealed truth from God’s Word." (cited in Unto Full Stature by Devern Fromke, p. 208)

Blessings,

Ian