Based on the churches history their roots came from what is known as a "Bible Church". Bible churches are a branch off of the old First Baptist Churches. Mars Hills since has become what they believe to be an independant multidenominational type of church.
Well thats funny cuz if they branched off a "bible church" from which my impression is that those guys are the type of church that take the bible at its litteral point, then why would Mars Hill block out that once section in the book of Acts about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and believe that it doesnt happen today?Most "Bible Churches" who say they take the bible absolutely literally and without error, also claim the same bible tells them that all of that ended when Paul finished writing, or when the canon was finished ala John's Revelation. As proof text, they point to 1 Cor 13 where Paul says tongues and prophecy will be done away with when "that which is perfect is come." Their stance is that that which is perfect is the Bible, and it has come.
It is basically the same stance taken by most Baptist churches, and the vast majority of all the other mainline denoms....it also includes all the different varieties of dispensationalists.
They don't literally "block out" that part of Acts, they just re-interpret its meaning through the filter of that one passage in 1 Cor 13.
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