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CC1
01-10-2020, 06:28 PM
This Sunday January 12,2020 at 9:30 am Pastor Steve Epley will cut the ribbon for the new sanctuary of the Racine Apostolic Church. If you are a friend of his on FB you will have been following the progress on the construction of this beautiful building. Congrtatulations to my friend!

Esaias
01-10-2020, 06:42 PM
Facebook?

For realz? Or for lulz?

:)

Armapeet.Singh
01-11-2020, 03:14 PM
It is sad thats so many preachers thinks that a big building is the highlight of their ministry. So many I have seen that have built the big building just have to give it to another man who might or might not keep the building.

God designed the Tabernacle, men design temples.

Nicodemus1968
01-11-2020, 04:04 PM
It is sad thats so many preachers thinks that a big building is the highlight of their ministry. So many I have seen that have built the big building just have to give it to another man who might or might not keep the building.

God designed the Tabernacle, men design temples.

Couldn’t agree more. They’re “legacy” is built on how big the building is rather than....

navygoat1998
01-11-2020, 06:04 PM
Couldn’t agree more. They’re “legacy” is built on how big the building is rather than....

obviously you don't know Pastor Epley.

diakonos
01-11-2020, 06:25 PM
It is sad thats so many preachers thinks that a big building is the highlight of their ministry. So many I have seen that have built the big building just have to give it to another man who might or might not keep the building.

God designed the Tabernacle, men design temples.

Someone’s jealous :lol

diakonos
01-11-2020, 06:26 PM
Couldn’t agree more. They’re “legacy” is built on how big the building is rather than....

Not this little man. Really.

Nicodemus1968
01-11-2020, 06:41 PM
Not this little man. Really.

I’m not speaking of this Brother. I’m talking about several Pastors I know of. They build these huge churches as part of their legacy, to show what type of church they have. I don’t know Bro. Epley, except for the quote that Bro. Benincasa used to have of him.

Armapeet.Singh
01-12-2020, 09:29 AM
Someone’s jealous :lol

No, just seen too much and too many.

consapente89
01-12-2020, 02:36 PM
Recently heard an elder make remarks concerning the prevalent “architectural evangelism” in today’s Pentecostal ranks. It is usually a problem because the buildings are for the purpose of impressing and drawing folks from other churches. It is a problem. If someone accused Elder Epley of such I would tell them they were clueless. I think armpit is clueless.

Congrats Elder Epley and God bless the Racine church!

Nicodemus1968
01-12-2020, 05:33 PM
Recently heard an elder make remarks concerning the prevalent “architectural evangelism” in today’s Pentecostal ranks. It is usually a problem because the buildings are for the purpose of impressing and drawing folks from other churches. It is a problem. If someone accused Elder Epley of such I would tell them they were clueless. I think armpit is clueless.

Congrats Elder Epley and God bless the Racine church!

I wouldn’t dare tell you what to think. Yet, I don’t understand the beef with Armapeet, he’s just suggesting that he has seen one too many to build these big buildings, yet they fail. He hasn’t said that he’s personally talking about this elder. Now, I agree with him! Just because we raise our eyebrows when this stuff comes around, because I’ve seen behind the pulpit. Does everyone that build big temples fail, no not at all. I just have concerns when this happens, like I said i know several, built million dollar buildings, one in particular right now 12 years later there may be just 20 people in the building.
On the other hand, congratulations Bro. Epley

hometown guy
01-12-2020, 08:30 PM
No, just seen too much and too many.

If I was a betting man I would bet you haven’t seen 5. Maybe you heard gossip of more but you ain’t seen probably but 1 maybe 2

n david
01-13-2020, 10:49 AM
If I was a betting man I would bet you haven’t seen 5. Maybe you heard gossip of more but you ain’t seen probably but 1 maybe 2
:nod

n david
01-13-2020, 10:54 AM
It is sad thats so many preachers thinks that a big building is the highlight of their ministry. So many I have seen that have built the big building just have to give it to another man who might or might not keep the building.

God designed the Tabernacle, men design temples.

What's sad is AFF can't even have a thread to congratulate a Pastor without someone posting their grievances.

Nicodemus1968
01-13-2020, 01:31 PM
If I was a betting man I would bet you haven’t seen 5. Maybe you heard gossip of more but you ain’t seen probably but 1 maybe 2

With that aside do you believe God created the Tabernacle, men create Temples. It seems to make sense to me.

hometown guy
01-13-2020, 01:48 PM
With that aside do you believe God created the Tabernacle, men create Temples. It seems to make sense to me.

Maybe you elaborate more .. are you referring to the original tabernacle???

Evang.Benincasa
01-13-2020, 02:48 PM
With that aside do you believe God created the Tabernacle, men create Temples. It seems to make sense to me.

If you are invited to preach in a church with stained glass and a 9 foot angel hanging from the wall over the platform. Will you take the invitation and preach?

Scott Pitta
01-13-2020, 03:41 PM
I am very happy for Steve Epley. He has always been kind to me and it is good to read good news coming from where he works.

Blessings to you, Rev. Epley.

Nicodemus1968
01-13-2020, 03:44 PM
If you are invited to preach in a church with stained glass and a 9 foot angel hanging from the wall over the platform. Will you take the invitation and preach?

If I feel a message for the assembly, yes sir I would.

Nicodemus1968
01-13-2020, 03:45 PM
If you are invited to preach in a church with stained glass and a 9 foot angel hanging from the wall over the platform. Will you take the invitation and preach?

Why does it have to be an angel? What about a 9 ft tv screen?

Tithesmeister
01-13-2020, 03:55 PM
If you are invited to preach in a church with stained glass and a 9 foot angel hanging from the wall over the platform. Will you take the invitation and preach?

Does the 9’ angel have ecclesiastical wings?

I think we should have standards that gold angels should not exceed 9’ and shouldn’t be females. Because the Bible has no women angels. They should have at least 3/4 length sleeves and their hair should be above their collar. (No hippie angels.) They shouldn’t have more than a five o’clock shadow. Seven o’clock shadows should be avoided. The cost of the angel should never exceed the average contribution to the widow in deed.

Oh, and absolutely no wedding rings(on the angels).

MawMaw
01-13-2020, 04:00 PM
Congratulations on the beautiful new church, Bro. Epley!!

Evang.Benincasa
01-13-2020, 04:44 PM
Why does it have to be an angel? What about a 9 ft tv screen?

Would you preach with the 9 ft television screen?

Nicodemus1968
01-13-2020, 05:04 PM
Would you preach with the 9 ft television screen?

:happydance

CC1
01-13-2020, 06:55 PM
What's sad is AFF can't even have a thread to congratulate a Pastor without someone posting their grievances.

My thoughts exactly. This thread reminds me of why so many members have left AFF. It is not a very nice place to be a lot of the time.

Evang.Benincasa
01-13-2020, 10:40 PM
My thoughts exactly. This thread reminds me of why so many members have left AFF. It is not a very nice place to be a lot of the time.

I thought It was Facebook?

I guess you forgot how rough this forum and NFCF was on "old time" Pentecostals in general. But, please feel free to go through all the posts by DA and the rest of the haters who frequented the "friends" forum.

How funny.

TJJJ
01-14-2020, 07:01 AM
Does the 9’ angel have ecclesiastical wings?

I think we should have standards that gold angels should not exceed 9’ and shouldn’t be females. Because the Bible has no women angels. They should have at least 3/4 length sleeves and their hair should be above their collar. (No hippie angels.) They shouldn’t have more than a five o’clock shadow. Seven o’clock shadows should be avoided. The cost of the angel should never exceed the average contribution to the widow in deed.

Oh, and absolutely no wedding rings(on the angels).

Oh, but the Bible specifically mentions, in one instant, two women angels.

TJJJ
01-14-2020, 07:02 AM
Armpit is a joker!

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 07:03 AM
Oh, but the Bible specifically mentions, in one instant, two women angels.

What!!!???

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 07:04 AM
Armpit is a joker!

He is also mean to me. :(

Nicodemus1968
01-14-2020, 10:28 AM
He is also mean to me. :(

I understand, you guys are making fun of his name (forum name). :heeheehee

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 10:36 AM
I understand, you guys are making fun of his name (forum name). :heeheehee

I heard he is having church out of the trunk of his car?

Armapeet.Singh
01-14-2020, 10:47 AM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!

n david
01-14-2020, 10:47 AM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!
I see "you"...

:toofunny

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 10:50 AM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!

How can you say that about [you]???? I care about [you] very much and hold them in the highest regard.

TJJJ
01-14-2020, 10:51 AM
What!!!???

Zec 5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
Zec 5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
Zec 5:7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
Zec 5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zec 5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Zec 5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
Zec 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Here we see the only instance in Scriptures where women are depicted as angels or spiritual beings. And.... it is in the establishing of the false religion Babylon, in the plains of Shinar.

Funny how the whore religion was carried by women with wings like a stork.

TJJJ
01-14-2020, 10:52 AM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!

Yeah and your a idiot!!!

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 10:56 AM
Zec 5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
Zec 5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
Zec 5:7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
Zec 5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zec 5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Zec 5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
Zec 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Here we see the only instance in Scriptures where women are depicted as angels or spiritual beings. And.... it is in the establishing of the false religion Babylon, in the plains of Shinar.

Funny how the whore religion was carried by women with wings like a stork.

Where does it say they were angels?

TJJJ
01-14-2020, 11:05 AM
Where does it say they were angels?

Obviously they are spiritual beings, working in a spiritual environment. Doesn't say they are angels but what would they be?

Spiritual beings, with wings, women....?

Your take on it?

TJJJ
01-14-2020, 11:05 AM
You could say demons....?

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 11:13 AM
They're not angels or demons.

They are symbols, the number two, the females, the storks, the talent of lead, the ephah between the earth and the heaven. They aren't representing actual things lying around heaven. :)

Nicodemus1968
01-14-2020, 11:39 AM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!

??? You have got to be joking

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 11:39 AM
My thoughts exactly. This thread reminds me of why so many members have left AFF. It is not a very nice place to be a lot of the time.

Is this the good fun you've been missing around here? You think if we brought back the haters everyone would come back from Facebook?

:killinme


This just in .....for what it's worth, MEMO TO Jan Jasinski, Lee Stoneking and other false teachers:

.... most Wiccan witches agree there is no added or extra power in uncut hair while recognizing it is used in ritual magick... but so is eye newt, toe of frog ... wool of bat and tongue of dog.

One witch, Grace, states:



Most PRACTICING WITCHES on the following forum thread believe, ironically, it's a BIBLE TALE OR MYTH.
One accurately states it is a misguided belief among many cultures, religions, etc.

http://www.paganspace.net/forum/topics/wiccans-and-cutting-hair?id=1342861%3ATopic%3A4454123&page=1#comments

SO WHY DON'T YOU STOP THE BOLD FACE LIES TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD???!!!!

hometown guy
01-14-2020, 12:04 PM
Lol that trick gets people every time.

Esaias
01-14-2020, 12:07 PM
Obviously they are spiritual beings, working in a spiritual environment. Doesn't say they are angels but what would they be?

Spiritual beings, with wings, women....?

Your take on it?

Hillary Clinton and Barak ("Beckie") Obama?

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 12:29 PM
Lol that trick gets people every time.

:highfive

consapente89
01-14-2020, 12:34 PM
How can you say that about [you]???? I care about [you] very much and hold them in the highest regard.

I am a he, not a them. Thank you for the kind words though!


























































:spit

Evang.Benincasa
01-14-2020, 02:09 PM
I am a he, not a them. Thank you for the kind words though! :spit

i meant them too :highfive

KeptByTheWord
01-17-2020, 01:07 PM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!

:heeheehee:happydance

Some things on AFF just never change :heeheehee

CC1
01-18-2020, 10:03 PM
I thought It was Facebook?

I guess you forgot how rough this forum and NFCF was on "old time" Pentecostals in general. But, please feel free to go through all the posts by DA and the rest of the haters who frequented the "friends" forum.

How funny.

Oh you don't have to remind me. I think if you search you will find numerous old posts of mine blaming DA for destroying AFF. He ran off a lot of good people. Now instead of as many interesting diverse discussions we seem to have a lot of attack dogs that make it a pretty miserable place to post most of the time. Just like this thread where we can't even be happy for a Pastor member who has successfully just completed a building program.

Evang.Benincasa
01-19-2020, 06:09 AM
Oh you don't have to remind me. I think if you search you will find numerous old posts of mine blaming DA for destroying AFF. He ran off a lot of good people. Now instead of as many interesting diverse discussions we seem to have a lot of attack dogs that make it a pretty miserable place to post most of the time. Just like this thread where we can't even be happy for a Pastor member who has successfully just completed a building program.

Stop :stop

You are getting a bit little old lady like? If you look at the thread you will see that the lion share are people are congratulating the elder on his building.

That is what you should focus on. I have been going through the forum's history of posts of late. What I found is that you were (in some threads) dancing to DA's flute playing. Your own avatar showing David M. Wasmundt's book Neo Phariseeism, is pretty telling of what you think of us (those who believe in standards.)

So, lighten up, this forum lost members when three different preacher forums were built. Then the advent of Face Book did the rest. the vast majority of people don't want to engage in banter, so you have hundreds of lurkers, instead of gladiators. Also, "religious" history is LOADED with its participants killing each other. Northern Ireland's Catholic vs Protestant to Pakistan's Hindu vs Muslim. So, CC1 you are getting older, very older, so lighten up, the world isn't as bad as you perceive.

coksiw
01-19-2020, 08:02 AM
I thinks that you are very mean peoples!!!

[you] is a jerk and may the fleas from a thousand camels be in his bedrolls!

Man, you made me laugh, :heeheehee

TJJJ
01-19-2020, 08:26 AM
??? You have got to be joking

It's the you trick bro, nothing personal from the jerk.

Evang.Benincasa
01-25-2020, 08:35 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU0J51QdzOs&ab_channel=ApostolicMessages

UnTraditional
01-28-2020, 02:19 AM
Congrats Pastor Epley!

My home church, The Grace Place Worship Center, finally found a location after flooding out so many times. It is a blessing to have someplace to fellowship, and I fear we take this so for granted in our American Christianity. I mean, in China the meetings have to be hidden for dear of arrest, as well as in the Middle East. Praise God for a place of fellowship.