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Originally Posted by votivesoul
I've read similar accounts about IHOP. I think, whatever the truth, IHOP is severely imbalanced. Too much emphasis on the "prophetic" as if that's the main thing to focus on, and too youth driven and orientated. Young people are easily controlled and maneuvered into mindless submission.
A lot of young people are very hungry for God and are desperate to do a work for the Lord. The church needs this passion and zeal, and young people need to be given an outlet for it. However, young people also don't typically have much wisdom, and tend to operate like gangsters, enforcing behaviors on each other, no different than a clique system at a public high school.
Accounts have indicated that such tactics are normal there, among the "interns", as I believe they are called.
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In a way Bro they are more balanced than many. In that they teach a love relationship with Jesus. Deep intimacy. Praying for hours. Praying in the Spirit for hours.
Much of their "ministry" is witnessing on the streets and to the downtrodden something hardly
ANY CHURCHES do.
And they are one of the
ONLY Churches I have known of that teach the fear of God. They even make songs about his judgment which I dont remember any Church doing.
Dont forget the "interns" are actually a small part of the Church as a whole.
If judged strictly by the word on all points they fall short. As do the rest of the Churches I know of.
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