Acts of the Green Apples

Sherri · #1 06-29-2011, 09:10 PM

I just read this book and it was an amazing testimony of the Charismatic renewal in the sixties that started in the Episcopal church and swept throughout all the mainline denominations over the next ten years or so. I obviously don't agree with all their doctrines, but the power of the Holy Ghost that they experienced was real. They didn't know anything - they were just hungry for more of God. They saw so many miracles and amazing conversions.

One interesting thing was that when they would get full of the Holy Spirit, they would immediately stop drinking and smoking, etc. No one told them to, and their mainline churches definitely didn't discourage these things. But the Holy Spirit taught them. I think it's interesting that today even some Pentecostals are starting to accept these things in their churches in moderation, that denominational people were convicted of when they received the Holy Spirit baptism. Hmmmm......

Sherri · #2 06-29-2011, 09:10 PM

We were always taught that the Charismatics got the Holy Ghost and continued to live the same lifestyles. According to this book, that wasn't true.

Sandra79 · #3 06-29-2011, 10:01 PM

The Holy Ghost sure is a leader and guider, He will guide u into all truth. Wat an awesome God we serve!

acerrak · #4 06-29-2011, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

We were always taught that the Charismatics got the Holy Ghost and continued to live the same lifestyles. According to this book, that wasn't true.

i seen many moves of God when growing up in charasmatic pentacostal church this was before i even knew oneness pentacostals exsisted

i remember a youth rally were the holy ghost fell, teenagers was pulling out there dip (cans of skoal), their racist items and living them at the alter.

trialedbyfire · #5 07-09-2011, 07:48 PM

I personally still believe that the majority of "third wave movement" is demonic. Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Brian Carn, and the people that came out of that movement, I simply don't trust. It could just be my own prejudice but I have enough friends in the Full Gospel movement to have reason for my suspicion. I can look at the history of the Pentecostal Holiness church and see that some strange things happened when mainline Pentecostal denominations (COGIC, PHC, Church of God, etc) started embracing some of these "third wave" folks. People of all denominations coming together, SOUNDS great, but the fruits seem to be manifesting in a way that scares me totally, and of course I'm against it doctrinally. A lot of this "new stuff" seems to be bringing strange doctrines including "inclusion" in mainstream denominations. Remember Cartlon Pearson? Maybe I'm just a crazy conspiracy theorist and always have been, but this charismatic thing frightens me.

UnTraditional · #6 07-09-2011, 07:51 PM

Would the Lord pour His Spirit upon the defiled temple? No. I guess grace covers all denominations and churches, and leads men and women to live right in Christ.

pelathais · #7 07-09-2011, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by trialedbyfire

I personally still believe that the majority of "third wave movement" is demonic. Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Brian Carn, and the people that came out of that movement, I simply don't trust. It could just be my own prejudice but I have enough friends in the Full Gospel movement to have reason for my suspicion. I can look at the history of the Pentecostal Holiness church and see that some strange things happened when mainline Pentecostal denominations (COGIC, PHC, Church of God, etc) started embracing some of these "third wave" folks. People of all denominations coming together, SOUNDS great, but the fruits seem to be manifesting in a way that scares me totally, and of course I'm against it doctrinally. A lot of this "new stuff" seems to be bringing strange doctrines including "inclusion" in mainstream denominations. Remember Cartlon Pearson? Maybe I'm just a crazy conspiracy theorist and always have been, but this charismatic thing frightens me.

I didn't know that Copeland, Hinn and Brian Carn were Episcopals "in the sixties" or members of "mainline denominations" at that time either. I didn't think Brian Carn was even born until about 20 years later.

You're right. That is strange. And, yes, you may be crazy too.