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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
I confess I never knew Elder Glass nor heard him preach there were some circumstances that placed him into a different circle other than organizational and the "PCI" whatever. But Tim it is odd to me that many preachers out from under him and influenced by him are strong new birth Acts 2:38 guys. I confess I heard from Elder Burr's own mouth what is quoted. I don't know if it was a fact or suspicion by association? Elder D. Gray was PCI but believed the new birth maybe stronger in his latter years than his former and could that be the same of Elder Glass could both be correct that either he became stronger or weaker?
But his ministry strongly advocating the Acts 2:38 is NO solace to those who want to calim him that preach rarely if ever the Acts 2:38 message. Elder Gurley did NOT preach Acts 2:38 in a private class if you asked for it. Their preaching of repentance was not repeating the sinner's prayer and accepting Jesus in your heart. And everyone on here knows that. These folks who want to wear the "PCI" badge today would not be comfortable in those PCI meetings of yesteryear. That is a FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it is an injustice to the memory of those men who I think were in error
to marginalize their emphasis on Acts 2:38 which dsitinquished them from their friends in the AG & CoG they left behind. John Patterson a PCI minded man wrote one of the greatest books on the Godhead & Baptism in Jesus Name. He did not feel like I do and never did but the PAoC thought him to be extreme because of his stand for the message. It is unfair to Gurley and yes even Yadon who would have been the weakest yet spent the majority of his preaching life preaching his emphasison Acts 2:38.
Get ready aim fire BUT remember I have been in a couple of debates myself and like you I enjoy it.  |
Oh.
Something else I just thought of with regard to what I bolded.
H. L. Bennett was obviously "PCI" in his views and I think if you could find any of his disciples around, they would confirm this.
One of them is Jerry Gilland.
He was a good friend of mine and preached me when I was a young evangelist and he pastored in Lander, Wyoming.
I have no idea if he's still alive, still lives around DeQuincy or what. He pastored in Simmesport, La. for a time after he left Wyoming and I preached for him there.
Anyone who knows Gilland knows he is VERY conservative. In fact, he would have fit better in the AMF.
But no one loved H. L. Bennett more.
So yes ... sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree when it comes to mentors' disciples when they mature.