You know you're Pentecostal when...

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Honey, we were from a poor old country church. If I remember correctly, one of the ladies went to the local thrift store (meaning "junk shop") and found a whole bolt of that nylon net stuff. That's how our rats got started. We did try pantyhose, but the hairpins stuck better in the nylon net stuff. So we sacrificed. When I think of some of the things we did...........................

I'd been in the AMF church about 6 months. I was maybe 19 or 20. been a Christian less than a year.

When I saw this happen one night.

Pastor calle a woman out. Demanded Sister Mary come down and stand in front of pulpit.

He chastised her for having some ornament in her hair.

He demanded she take her hair down right there, in front of everybody and remove the offending item.

She "obeyed them that had the rule over her" and did as she was told.

I heard from pastors son later, that when he got home, his wife and three daughters, told him that they too and many of the other sister's used them things called "rats" to fix their hair.

To my knowledge he never apologized for his ignorance.

You might be a Pentecostal...when you endure such abuse as this.

Sister Mary disappeard shortly after this incident. God Bless her for that.