Well I was there! Left with a wheelbarrow full of questions.
1) What was Perry trying to achieve? Did he do it?
2) It was a Charismatic Pentecostal style happening and I wonder if that was what Perry was looking for.
3) The Oneness Pentecostal (UPCI) can't possible be pleased and think God was in this gathering? ..... Or can they?
4) The Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc can't be real excited about it. It was Pentecostal, for the most part, through and through!
5) Did the Pentecostal, Charismatic votes overcome those who would have been turned off by the physical worship, jumping, shouting to some extent, and on the floor with faces on the concrete?
6) Maybe Perry truly wasn't looking for votes! Maybe his spiritual concerns were greater than his political needs! I don't know. We will probably find out in the days that lie ahead.
7) I do know this, Rick Perry seemed so very sincere and I give him the benefit of the doubt! His statements and prayer were very forceful! Yet they probably won't receive much acclaim in the political world.
Much of the Master of Ceremonies duties were conducted by Doug Stringer,
www.dougstringer.org.
Also, please allow me a moment to complain about the music. I am not saying this just to be critical. But, during some of the prayers you could not hear the speakers for the loud music, (drums and bass guitar, in particular) playing too loud in the background. And I'm not a fan of contemporary music, but todays was the worst. I've never heard so many songs with 5 or 6 words, repeated over and over and over and over and over and over.... oh, sorry I got carried away!
Another thing that I thought was unusual, was as I was going in, there was an airplane over head, pulling a banner that said something like this... "Gov. We don't want the church mixed with politics!"
So that's kinda how I saw it. Maybe this is the beginning of something wonderful, but for this forum, how can that be when these folks are not "Apostolic?"
Been Thinkin
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