Strange Rituals are Getting into the Church

So many Pentecostals are getting into ritualistic and strange practices merely to "feel" and "appear" spiritual, just as every cult does. Rather than evaluating what is being said and done according to the Scriptures, they are leaning into good sounding things that detract from spiritual growth and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:17-24
The New Life
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—
21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."