The Catholic Church has much written on Carisma and the Charismatic Movement in the Catholic Church which is here:
read-out.net/avila/ccr.html ;
vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PH.HTM ; and here at
iccrs.org
The AoG USA has a single doctrine of 16 articles here:
ag.org/top/beliefs/statement_of_fundamental_truths/sft_full.cfm#1
There is also an online liturgy and guide to ensure continuity of service for ministers to follow by password.
From this point on any reference to to charismatic is meant to not include the CCR or AoG or the 15 other Pentecostal Denominations. Each of these Pentecostal Denominations have their own Doctrines. None of the Pentecostal Doctrines are in communion with any denomination or the Catholic Church outside the Pentecostal movement. Also each Denomination is divided into groupings, and each grouping may have different liturgy and disciplines. AoG has 140 groupings worldwide. The CCR is unique and is within the Holy See.
Many charismatic non denominational churches are very evangelical as they are ministering to pastoral needs of non christians in their format. Thus the power of the holy spirit during these events is uniquely palpable and quite frankly it is “electrifying” (this is a metaphor). Those who attend these services tend to feel excitement, and some can even feel the Holy Spirit itself as if they stood in a sea and could feel a current (again another metaphor).
This really makes a big difference whether a non denominational charismatic church is evangelizing christians and baptizing them in the holy spirit while asking them to accept Jesus Christ as their Personal Lord and Savior. It’s like asking a person to accept their wife or husband after marriage in a rebirth of marriage through this proclamation and affirmation. In non-denominational charismatic service many christians easily and with great joy accept Jesus Christ, accept being born again, and accept the concept of Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the outward early evidence of such a Baptism as signs of Grace. The experience can be like nothing they have ever personally felt due to the nature of these services. But if you ask someone to accept their wife or husband, after service why do they simply not return to their own home and congregation and grow in faith thus ending the need for that couple to attend the service that led to their proclamation and or affirmation? Thus the result would devoid any non-denomintional charismatic ministry of a congregation and in truth many ministries have come and gone in a mere 50 year period.
The issue is how can a non denominational evangelical charismatic church survive and become brick and mortar if they are merely asking christians to accept Jesus Christ? And the answer is that christians who attend a charismatic service who return often return to the same format of evangelism (accepting Jesus Christ). Thus every service is simply to accept Jesus Christ accompanied by the same excitement and festivities of the original conversion (imagine celebration Christmas 365 days a year). There is in essence nothing substantive beyond this than to return to their own christian denominations and continue their service to God within their own congregation and add to their belief in their own doctrines
Non-deonominational evangelical charismatic churches that prosper and grow in congregation often seek to re-indoctriate new attendees (especially return visitors) into their church by stripping them of Doctrine identifiable to any denomination or the catholic church. Since initiation was immediate a person who accepted Jesus Christ merely stood up and need not real explanation of the church’s doctrine or practices outside the experience at that moment. As a result there it is hard for a person to identify any doctrine or even heresy of doctrines they already accept during their first service and “conversion” from Christianity to Christianity.
In reality there is doctrine in every non denominational charismatic church but varies from one pastor and leader to another and it may not be clear or written. Even within a single church you might receive mixed messages over time. And over time pastors may begin stripping out so much doctrine, the sacraments, the liturgy, and the communion, that what is left is merely whatever is read that day in church or spoken that day in faith formation. Although long last charismatic churches do establish a doctrine it is not in harmony with any other charismatic churches doctrine and as such is fluidic although the congregants may not see that.
To prevent members from returning to denominations much effort is put into debunking denominational doctrine and liturgy associated with denominations and the Catholic Church. At first it starts simple, with the sacraments, and over time it leads to just about every element and facet in minor verbal written detail that have profound theological meaning.
