Spiritual Purgatory: The Wastelands Between the Cross and Pentecost

"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" (Acts 19:2) There is a country that appears on no map of the Christian life, and it may be the most heavily populated territory in the American church. Its residents are sincere, baptized, faithful, and unborn. They came to the cross and camped there, and nobody ever told them the camp was not the final destination. Spiritual Purgatory is a map of that territory, the wastelands between the cross and Pentecost, and a road out of it. Pastor Charlie walks every text: the generation that died in the wilderness, the twelve disciples at Ephesus, the churches of Sardis and Laodicea, John's baptism and the baptism only Jesus gives, and the machines our own churches have built that manufacture wasteland residents by the busload. Every claim is labeled TEXT, INFERENCE, or TRADITION, so you can test the book against Scripture, including the author. For the reader who has done everything right and still suspects something is missing, this book names the condition, shows the border, and points to the door. The door is a Person, the price was paid at the very cross you camped at, and the whole way through is a turning and an asking.