In Chapter One of CHARISMATIC CAPTIVATION, Dr. Lambert explains the purpose and intents of this intriguing, no-holds-barred book, as well as recounts some of the events and personal experiences that precipitated and impelled its writing. He also delineates in this opening chapter the reasons it took eighteen years to finally heed the call of God to publish the profound, provocative, but prophetic message of CHARISMATIC CAPTIVATION directed to a Church which still does not take kindly to reproof and correction.

The author makes it clear this volume was written to bring healing and not hurt, much in the same way a surgeon must wound by incision in order to remove an offending cancer. In no way is this book merely a medium for "Charismatic-bashing." Though the approach is straightforward, the attitude and undertone of the work is neither castigating, caustic, nor condemnatory. Rather, it was written with mercy and compassion, not only toward victims of these hyper-authoritarian doctrines and devices, but also toward their practitioners. Notwithstanding, the author also categorically declares it was—