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Originally Posted by LifeUncommon
I don't know if this is something that is unique to my area or not, but the Pentecostals here are so hateful!
There is no love. If you don't go to their church (literally their 4 walls) you are shunned, ignored, etc. They won't even "fellowship" with other Pentecostal churches in the city. Or even family, unless they attend the same church.
I do not get this. What happed to loving others? What happened to banding together with our Christian brothers and sisters and helping each other along the way?
And if they think people who go to other churches aren't saved (not their call, but just for argument sake), wouldn't that be MORE reason to be salt and light and help lead them in what they consider to be the right direction?
I have even heard people close to me say they "don't care what happens to that church or anyone in it" when their own siblings and parents go to "that" church, not to mention people they literally grew up with.
How in the world can you love on and minister to a lost and dying world if you can't love other Christians or even your own family??
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There is a church in a neighboring city. Their members have been brainwashed by the Pastor to believe that other Pentecostals (UPC) are backslidden compromisers.
Recently a landslide of members have either left that church to go to other Pentecostal churches or just stopped going to church. They had enough of that Pastor
The problem is everyone of them left scarred and really internally unure if they could go to other Pentecostal churches because of what they had been taught for years.
We have several in my church and my friends church in another city has several.
These people are the result of bad Pastoring in a bad system focuses entirely their "gospel" on other churches being bad and a constant diet of nothing but what you should not be doing (ie watching TV etc etc).
While the members are partly to blame for being ignorant and enablers the problem is the Pastoring.
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