Has Pentecost changed?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by seekerman

The difference between oneness pentecostal services in the 50s and oneness pentecostal services today is tremendous. I was there in the 50s and I occasionally visit today and today has very little in common with back then. If you could take the saints in the 50s and transport them to today, they wouldn't believe what was happening....or more accurately, not happening.

Oneness pentecostalism today is a mere shell of what it was 50-70 years ago. It's a completely different church.

You have a time machine?

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

You have a time machine?

I was there.....I'm ancient.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by seekerman

I was there.....I'm ancient.

And you also went back again?

[Praxeas]

Pentecost is different from when I started going in the late 80s

They were less song and music oriented. There was more time spent during the "worship" service just with the hands raised worshiping God between songs.

The preaching was better, less "Quote a verse then tell stories" but more "Quote several verses and elaborate on the verse and maybe some stories"

And evangelists actually preached messages. Today evangelists nearly all come to church, crack jokes, tell stories and finally works the visitors up to coming forward to speak in tongues. No joke. I've been in services where the evangelist never opened his bible.

We had a missionary come through and preach for an hour or so and never opened the bible.