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Re: Charismatic Sweep
Speaking in tongues seems to grab a lot of headlines within the Christian community these days. I remember finding one article discussing what the writer called the "vogue of speaking in tongues". The argument was that many people perhaps do not have the genuine gift of the Holy Ghost, but yet spoke in other tongues to "fit in" with those the genuinely have the Spirit of God dwelling within them.
Likewise, there are just as many articles circling about the continuing decline of the Spirit baptism and the movement of the Spirit within most self-proclaiming Pentecostal churches. There was an Assemblies of God pastor that said something along these lines: Christians don't like standing out unless they have to, and that's why many Pentecostal churches have dwindled in terms of Spirit-filled services because these churches want to move into the mainstream.
They've traded the real deal for trash.
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I am Apostolic I believe in One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.
I believe in water baptism by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.
I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, evidenced by speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
I believe in living a holiness lifestyle, inwardly and outwardly, without which no man shall see the Lord.
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