MSJ 14:2 (Fall 2003) p. 144 Pentecostal tradition.3 Discerning Christians who embrace the biblical teaching of cessationism, must take this matter seriously, since almost every branch of evangelical Christianity has embraced some form of charismatic theology. When John MacArthur published his book Charismatic Chaos4 in 1992, Robert W. Patterson offered a review featuring a contorted picture of MacArthur, holding a shield, and describing him as the last holdout and single defender of the dying cessationist