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Originally Posted by sola gratia
can anyone post any link that validates this thread... other than heresay?
thanks
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OK. Lets start with this--
http://ag.org/top/news/news_article_...cordCount=2936
(from a September 2006 news release by the Assemblies of God entitled "Pentecostal Discipleship - a desperate need in the AG ")
"During the annual Assemblies of God General Presbytery meeting held this past August in Springfield, Missouri, statistics were presented that revealed an alarming trend in the Assemblies of God that brought immediate action.
According to AG Assistant General Superintendent Charles Crabtree, last year
only 25 percent of new converts followed Christ in water baptism, with only 20 percent receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
“If we continue this trend,” Crabtree states, “
in 10 years, we will have a very small percentage of Pentecostals in the Assemblies of God.”
Makes me very sad to see stuff like this.
So many people sitting in these churches thinking they're saved, and theyre not!
I'm shocked to see a denomination just steadily decline like this. And there seems to be no end in sight.