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Originally Posted by acharris
Has anyone considered the arrogance of placing on your church sign...
"THE PENTECOSTALS OF TIMBUKTU (OR ANY OTHER CITY)" unless...
You are indeed the only Pentecostals in that city.
You don't want or forsee anyone else ever starting another Pentecostal church in your city.
I really don't mean this to appear mean spirited toward those who already call their churches by this title.
I just wonder how other Pentecostal churches in those cities feel?
I can understand "The Pentecostals of Main Street (or some neighborhood)" but to make the statement that you are indeed "THE PENTECOSTALS OF NEW YORK CITY!" I don't understand it.
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*sigh*
If you are threatened or intimidated by a group of Christians claiming to be the Pentecostals of any city, then you need to get a life.
I think the other churches in that particular city should also call themselves the Pentecostals of ________, thereby including themselves with the same group of believers. Oh, but that wouldn't work would it? Since in most cases they want to set themselves apart from other churches. Disunity is the end result and the desired one.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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