Friends church droppped "standards"

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by trialedbyfire

I experienced it outside of the OP movement (yes OPs aren't only churches with "standards"). The church I received the Holy Ghost at was a Full Gospel church. Used to hold real hardcore "holiness" standards, stricter then some ultra-con OP churches I know. Over a two year period the church dropped most of their standards slowly.

The pastor also started wearing catholic garb including those weird mitre things. The church has lost a good amount of it's members and up until recently the church was pretty stagnant in worship. God used to move through that church like a hurricane. Demons were cast out, people were healed, the church would be packed during prayer services. I honestly don't think they have prayer services anymore to tell the truth. They used to fellowship a lot, including with a few OP churches. I'm not sure if they still do. Haven't been there in years. I'm not saying the standards are what caused that church to become really dead... the slacking off on prayer and discipline did that, the standards just went with it.

I don't know of one or heard of one church that dropped standards that hadn't seem to lose power or commiment.