Non-charismatics refused this point of view. The gap was wide and the two camps were quite distinct. It seems to me that that these camps are much closer today than they were in those days. The Mount Hermon Conference Center also, with its long tradition of Bible-teaching ministry, frequently welcomes leadership from both of the groupings we have referred to. The Lausanne Conference on Evangelism is another example of this.
Charismatic experience is less distinctive than it is sometimes made out.
It is inarguable that God has in the past, and will in the future, encounter individuals in both a rational and a trans-rational fashion. I have participated in prayer meetings when we laid hands on demonized people, praying that God would directly encounter and destroy the forces of wickedness. Our elders have anointed the sick with oil and prayed for healing, and we have seen God act. There are then, times when God acts in powerful, unpredictable ways which he is not required to explain to us. But it is also true to say that God bids us to understand his purposes and to expect him to act.