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Originally Posted by Cindy
Something went wrong when a generation of young people left the church. But they didn’t just leave, they left broken, bruised, offended, bitter, and have grown distant from the church. And now willingly and openly ridicule and mock their humble beginnings in ignorance. Those that had callings on their lives now walkout their days with dreams unfulfilled. Young people that were swindled out of their inheritance by the evil manipulation of the devil, or chased out from a pulpit manned by an arrogant dictatorial demanding preacher or the hypocrisies of double standards of those in authority and in their homes.
I weep for the unnecessary and or willful loss. Who will grieve with me? Better yet, who will pray with me that they will return?-Joel Barnaby
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Miss C, I have seen time after time, where some of the young people are not accepted into "cliques" that are totally spoken against from the pulpit...(but then are some pastors/churches who dont really have a love for their youth) they are shunned for different reasons and it is sad. Once my daughter (who got the Holy Ghost when she was 11 at Youth Camp under Jeff Arnold, and had been baptised since 8 by Rev Keith Clark) she had fell out after she married a person who was not in church and of a different faith...well, she came back on and off because she said she felt God pulling her back...many people had been praying for her, so she and this man decided to seperate for reasons of abuse and other things. We knew God was answering a prayer...but when she came back, she had on pants, in which I was just
so happy she was coming back I never spoke of her clothes, I was going to allow God to deal with her and believed she would come back to how she was raised in time. She attended 2 times and went to the alter, God was dealing heavily with her. My heart was happy. After a moving service and wonderful alter service, she went to the bathroom where a few of the young girls caught her and "lit into her" about her clothes and told her she would never be a part of them or anyone....long story made short....that was the last time she came. ;*-( She is bitter to this day and we pray for her daily. She still asks her dad to pray for her when she is sick :-) so I know she still feels something. I ask for your prayers for her and my son of whom has the Holy Ghost and has been baptised since a very young age. They both are the 4th generation Apotolic. I have placed my son "on the alter" as he is so far out of control it is heart breaking. Asking anyone who reads this for your prayers for my children. I pray for all the young people in every church.....for they are the future coming church!
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