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Originally Posted by commonsense
I'm not AOG and have never been AOG but they're doing something right.....
(have had many friends and relatives that were part of the AOG)
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Maybe. But then again, many (not all) AoG churches are watering themselves down so much they differ little from a typical non-denominational evangelical church (Consider how once upon a time nearly 100% of AoG constituents had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then it was decided that just the ministry needed to have received the Holy Spirit and spoken in tongues in order to be licensed, and now? Who knows. When you make the baptism of the Holy Spirit any optional experience subsequent to salvation, no wonder people stop caring enough to seek it.).
With this being the case, since people from all backgrounds and associations like to church shop and hop, numerical growth may only be an indicator of already professing and believing transplants from a non-AoG church.
While it may mean the ranks are swelling, it doesn't necessarily mean the AoG is actually growing in terms of fulfilling the Great Commission (i.e. winning the lost).
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