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harleypreacher 03-31-2010 02:19 PM
My church lost its Apostolic Identity
 
My church lost its Apostolic Identity last week when we start acting like the Apostolic Church. We went into the streets and on our jobs brought people to church, baptized 140 people in 4 days and I looked around last Sunday and very few in the crowd look Apostolic. So we have a choice to make, look Apostolic or act Apostolic and turn our city upside down. Going back out tonight and hope the number will be over 200 by Friday.

deltaguitar 03-31-2010 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by harleypreacher (Post 893512)
My church lost its Apostolic Identity last week when we start acting like the Apostolic Church. We went into the streets and on our jobs brought people to church, baptized 140 people in 4 days and I looked around last Sunday and very few in the crowd look Apostolic. So we have a choice to make, look Apostolic or act Apostolic and turn our city upside down. Going back out tonight and hope the number will be over 200 by Friday.
revival is the reason we lost it.

rgcraig 03-31-2010 02:27 PM
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Awesome!

KWSS1976 03-31-2010 02:30 PM
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Got to have the look to be Apostolic or you ain't Apostolic that lets everyone know without a doubt that you are more holy then they are...You have to play by the rules of the club...lol

deltaguitar 03-31-2010 02:37 PM
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or as Wayne Huntley put it once, "you need some decoys so the new folks won't feel uncomfortable." You just got some decoys is all.

Hoovie 03-31-2010 02:38 PM
Re: My church lost its Apostolic Identity
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by harleypreacher (Post 893512)
My church lost its Apostolic Identity last week when we start acting like the Apostolic Church. We went into the streets and on our jobs brought people to church, baptized 140 people in 4 days and I looked around last Sunday and very few in the crowd look Apostolic. So we have a choice to make, look Apostolic or act Apostolic and turn our city upside down. Going back out tonight and hope the number will be over 200 by Friday.
Awesome!

Guess I'll state the obvious too since it appears your post contains a wee bit of provocation.

Neither the "Apostolic Identity" group nor those who reject what the term codifies would expect these 140 to "look" much different than they did last week out on the street. So really, no choice after all.

Anyhoo, I rejoice with you!

KWSS1976 03-31-2010 02:44 PM
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better watch out people be calling you guys dead baptist before long.......lol

PMBrown 03-31-2010 03:15 PM
Re: My church lost its Apostolic Identity
 
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Originally Posted by harleypreacher (Post 893512)
My church lost its Apostolic Identity last week when we start acting like the Apostolic Church. We went into the streets and on our jobs brought people to church, baptized 140 people in 4 days and I looked around last Sunday and very few in the crowd look Apostolic. So we have a choice to make, look Apostolic or act Apostolic and turn our city upside down. Going back out tonight and hope the number will be over 200 by Friday.
Wonderful!! We need more like churches like that!

berkeley 03-31-2010 04:05 PM
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Some of you have an unhealthy obsession for what you used to be.

pelathais 03-31-2010 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Berkley (Post 893584)
Some of you have an unhealthy obsession for what you used to be.
Dunno about you generalization here, Bezerkly my friend.

I look back over a lot of that time and I see a lot of unhealthy things that I just tried to live with. It wasn't doing me any good and I wasn't doing anyone else a lot of good much of the time either.

"Go for it" is what I say to Harley.


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