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Originally Posted by TRFrance
I see you describe yourself in your user title as "Jesus Name Pentecostal"... and you said here that your pastor and youth pastor baptized in the traditional trinity formula.
I'm just curious here... You're "Jesus name pentecostal" but the church/pastors are not?
(Just trying to make sense out of it, since most Jesus name pentecostals wouldn't want a pastor that isnt.)
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There is a lot of diversity among Pentecostals. I had a pastor years ago who was the UPC Ohio District Supt. and he told us not to refer to ourselves as Pentecostal because there were so many different doctrines among Pentecostals. He told us to refer to ourselves as Apostolic. However, there is great diversity among Apostolics also. For years the term Apostolic meant belief in the Holy Ghost Baptism and had nothing to do with water baptism.
I call myself a Jesus' name Pentecostal for a couple of reasons. I call myself Pentecostal because I have received the experience that about one third of the New Testament church (about 120 out of over 500 brethren) received on the Day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts chapter 2. I call myself Jesus' name because I think we should do all things (pray, cast out demons, heal the sick, baptize in water, etc.) in Jesus' name (i.e. under His authority). Whenever I have baptized people in water I have said "I baptize you in the name of Jesus Christ." That is my personal belief and the way I understand Scripture but I do not make it a test of fellowship.