Does your church still have "tarrying meetings"?

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Seems the general consensus in the church world is that "tarrying" in that sense is unnecessary and unbiblical. But practically ALL the early Pentecostals wholeheartedly believed in it.

I don't see it as unbiblical at all. How can someone see seeking the Lord in prayer, song and supplication be unbiblical?

The emotional stuff and snotting and rolling around and other stuff that happens in some tarry meetings is not recorded in the Bible, but neither is the gathering in church buildings. We have concepts and we have human nature and often, they collide.

Furthermore, who knows if God Himself may not be using some of the examples of humanity we see to bring a deeply personal breaking a surrendering to a soul racked by self will and pride?

Originally Posted by Esaias

Seems to me that as tarrying has been abandoned and replaced with a charismatic "just name it and claim it" type approach, we have become less and less genuinely Pentecostal.

I agree.

Originally Posted by Esaias

Many Pentecostal churches seem Pentecostal in name only. Many Pentecostals are backslid, lukewarm, worldly, uncharitable, and barely indiscernible in their attitude from the unabashedly lost.

I agree but the lack of tarry services isn't directly connected to this phenomenon.

Originally Posted by Esaias

Could abandoning the "importunate seeking after God" in favor of hurrying up to speak in tongues be responsible for flooding the world with pseudo-pentecostal "saints" and carnal imitation "pentecostal-in-name-only" churches?

I see symptoms of sickness but not a clear cause and effect relationship you seem to be trying to point out.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I don't see it as unbiblical at all. How can someone see seeking the Lord in prayer, song and supplication be unbiblical?

The emotional stuff and snotting and rolling around and other stuff that happens in some tarry meetings is not recorded in the Bible, but neither is the gathering in church buildings. We have concepts and we have human nature and often, they collide.

Furthermore, who knows if God Himself may not be using some of the examples of humanity we see to bring a deeply personal breaking a surrendering to a soul racked by self will and pride?



I agree.



I agree but the lack of tarry services isn't directly connected to this phenomenon.




I see symptoms of sickness but not a clear cause and effect relationship you seem to be trying to point out.

So abandoning the tarrying meeting/prayer meeting is a symptom along with the other things? What then would be the cause? And what would be the cure?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I don't see it as unbiblical at all. How can someone see seeking the Lord in prayer, song and supplication be unbiblical?
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He is talking about a specific kind of prayer meeting for people to seek the baptism of the Holy Ghost

He is not talking about tarrying at a church service.