We must not be intimidated out of the careful, prayerful searching out of things to see whether they really are of God. For instance it is not right to say that the Toronto Blessing is absolutely no good or everything about the Toronto blessing is of God . Thus you can say I am concerned about such and such a manifestation or I think it is wrong that they believe such and so and be on much safer ground. Here are twenty-two common ways that people make mistakes in judging movements of God. Checking only part of it.
Many heresies start out orthodox and then add in the extras as they go.
By saying if this is wrong then the opposite must be right . I will have nothing to do with people who talk about the Holy Spirit any more . Being overly impressed by worldly attributes such as an impressive church, a well-dressed or polished speaker with charisma, large attendances, international speakers. These things naturally impress us and we do not take a second look to see if there really is godly character, righteousness and truth. Buts its the only group that believes X and X is just so important.