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Originally Posted by triumphant1
The first church I remember using this was "the Pentecostals of Alexandria"...pastored by Anthony Mangun.
It seemed that it became popular in the Apostolic movement after that...
The church in Alexandria was well established when they started calling themselves by this name...interesting enough is that the "real" name of the curch is First UPC....so "The Pentecostals..." is like thier nickname.
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My understanding from the time that this was first used in Alexandria, LA, AM was going through a period where he really wanted to emphasize the "Pentecostal" aspects of worship for his church. I remember he once said something like, "When things are on fire there's no place more on fire than our church in Alexandria... but when things are dead, there's no place that's more dead than our church in Alexandria..."
Of course, just about any pastor could probably say the same thing of his church, wherever it might be. But AM just wanted to stir his church up. Apparently it worked and folks in other places have followed the same approach with varying degrees of success.
I don't know that it's motivated by "arrogance," though acharris has a point about the way it sounds. It's just sloganeering. When done right, it's good. When copied ad nauseum it does start to wear on you.
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