There is a reason for this. No one who believes the Bible questions the importance of religious experience, the place of genuine heart religion. Pentecostalism and the Centrality of Experience. Neo-Pentecostal literature is devoted almost exclusively to experience. It promotes what promises to be the exciting or satisfying experience of being baptized in the Spirit.
Great use is made of personal testimony.
I had the sensation I was almost floating instead of walking. Romanism and the centrality of Experience. Anyone who knows anything about the classical medieval doctrine of gratia infusa knows that the mystical inward experience of infused grace is the central concern of Roman Catholic piety. Edward O'Connor, The Pentecostal Movement in the Catholic Church, p. 183. Rome, who has traditionally been very uncomfortable with the Protestant doctrine of salvation by imputed righteousness, is very much at home where inward experience is the supreme emphasis.