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Originally Posted by tamor
Very sad. Yes, post your pics. You're very good with that camera!  oloroid |
Why, thank you, ma'am!!
This is the church that I grew up in. Did I tell you that already? I went here from the time I was 5 until I was 14. At that point, the pastor kicked me out. His daughter and I had been studying scripture together and started to see people receiving the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues. We asked him about it and he told us that we were 'too young to understand'. So another friend told us to go and talk to a new lady at church who had just come here from First Apostolic Church in Toledo. We went to Lois, who offered to take us (the pastor's daughter and I) with her to FAC on Sunday evenings. We went several times and just observed. And then a young married woman in the church called me one day and said that she had heard that I knew about this Holy Ghost thing. I told her I only knew what I had been told - that I had not experienced it myself. So she asked what I had been told. I told her. And then I told her that at FAC I had been told that if you wanted the HG, all you had to do was ask God for it and then begin to worship Him. So she asked if I would pray with her while she did that. I agreed to. She was worshipping away and the next thing I knew she was talking in tongues.
She then went to the pastor and told him that this had happened to her. AND that when she read the book of Acts, she noticed that everyone who had been baptized had been baptized in the name of Jesus in some form or another. So she asked him to baptize her that way. I had nothing to do with that!!!!
But that is NOT what the pastor thought. So he called me in the office and told me that I could either stand before the entire youth group and tell them that everything I had learned at FAC was lies, or else I was not welcome to come back. I told him I didn't know whether it was lies or whether it wasn't. And that if it was not lies, I sure didn't want to be responsible before God for telling people that they were. So I was invited to not return.
That's how I ended up in an Apostolic Church from the time I was 14 until I was almost 30.