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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Those fiery services are not fiery because everyone is faking or because the music is causing people to do things. Those services are fiery because many of those people are living a holy life and are praying.
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Ever thought that might have some connection with their doctrine?
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Ever been in a prayer room or prayer service where you walk in and can feel the Holy Ghost?
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I've been to too many UPC and even independent 'Oneness Pentecostal' services where the Spirit got quenched. No desire to go back. I've seen the Spirit move far more powerfully in non-institutional settings where God didn't 'get in the way of the program'.
Quite honestly, I do not miss UPC services, because every single UPC I have been to in the last 20 years has been sadly disappointing. I have been to services in UPC churches from Texas to Tennessee to Oklahoma to Washington state. I have been to ALJC and independent churches as well.
Every time was disappointing. Every time was a faint echo of what I remember when I first came into the truth. Every time was also a faint echo of what I have experienced in meetings with saints outside of the institutional, traditional 'pentecostal' church. To be perfectly honest, I am about 95% convinced that the modern 'pentecostal movement' has lost revival. We are fast becoming Oneness 'united methodists'.
But then again it's probably just me.
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