Kings of Leon
 

Someone at work let me listen to these guys. I remember them being connected to the UPC or something. They are really an amazing band musically though the lyrics aren't exactly uplifting.

Does anyone have any info on these guys?

Re: Kings of Leon
 

search AFF you will find plenty.

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I just went back and looked at a thread on them.
http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...ead.php?t=7635

Sad.

And it's amazing to see that many people from the same family practically backslide together. I've heard of it happening before, but it still blows my mind to see that. You'd think that kind of think just wouldn't/shouldn't happen.

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I doubt any of them truly understood the gospel. I think this is fairly common among Pentecostals who never get enough teaching on grace and Christ love. We had an AOG man visit us Sunday night and he testified that he grew up Pentecostal but was never "born again" until he got the strong Biblical teaching in the Baptist church at the age of 40. I found that very interesting.

Anyway, I just don't see how someone could completely turn their back on God if they were ever truly saved. These guys are amazingly talented and it would have been a shame to let it waste however I read that they abuse drugs and alcohol are headed down a very painful road.

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They were connected to upci. Scandal with pappa. You know how religion has a way of eating the weak. The boys walked.

I saw them on Austin City Limits. They are a tight band. They did a great set. They named their last album Because of the Times in honor of the visionary meeting in the South.

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The upci is very weak on repentance. The priorities of Acts 2:38 diehards are baptism and speaking in tongues. Repentance is glossed over just to get to the shockamoo.

The Kings of Leon's talent would have been wasted in the upci... Anything left of IBC or Mark Condon doesn't have a prayer. Remember David & the Giants? It hasn't gotten much better.

As I alluded to in another post, religion has a way of eating the weak. A scandal similar to the one this family went through occured at my church in the 1970's. People were like pirahnas. The kids were affected the most. The teenager affected by the scandal wrote a book a few years ago which she described the junk religion put her through.

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If you read a little about their history, being dragged all over the country, living by faith, income tied to meetings, put on the pretend thing around people so you don't mess with getting Dad meetings canceled, etc. After a while it plays on a kids head, emotional makeup and eventually resent the ministry. Not in every case. Throw in whatever Dad did, most likely some inconsistencies you get a receipe for a group of kids not wanting whatever troubled their family so much. Ministry and Revivalism doesn't equate with Jesus, most likely they never really encountered Jesus.

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Their mother worked for a friend of mine once in the insurance business. He said the boys would come by and play their music for him on occassion. He did state that there was a lot of dysfunction within the family. Sad for the boys.

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They attended a UPC church last Easter around Nashville. First time they had been to church in awhile.

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Their aunt goes to our church.