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Originally Posted by OneAccord
Brother, as long as we try to split the outpouring of the Holy Ghost along doctrinal and or organizational lines, we will never see it. God is not divided. He pours His Spirit upon all flesh. ALL flesh. I remember the 70's and the "Jesus People". God began to move among them in a mighty way. What did we do? We snarled our nose at it and said it wasn't of God... We lifted not one finger to try to coax those long-haired, hippie Jesus freaks into the fullness of truth. We're Apostolic people involved in the Healing Revival? No... cause it ws being led by (egads!) Trinity preachers.
I've heard "revivals" like Brownstown and Smithton mocked and ridiculed, yet, except for small pockets of revival, the Apostolic Church bears little resemblence to Joels prophecy of Joel 2:28. And we claim to have ALL TRUTH. And I think you are right... we want it our way. We want the Joel 2:28 experience, we just don't want to have to endure the Joel 2:17 experience to get it. And we'll never have the one without the other.
Revival that resembles anything like Joel 2;28 isn't born at headquarters. Its not born in a committee room and it doesn't come through a craftily planned program. It is born in the Prayer Closet. A sacrifice must be made to inherit a blessing. The fact is... the Apostolic movement is a divided movement. Plain and simple. And as long as that is the case, and we seem to want it to remain that way.... we'll continue to be left on the bench while "the other team" scores. |
AMEN!!!!!
I received the HGB on May 20, 1956 at Bethel Tabernacle UPC in Racine, Wisconsin. I attended one year 1956/1957 at the Apostolic Bible Institute in St. Paul, MN. I attended a UPC church here in the Cincinnati area from 1957 until some time in the early nineteen sixties. Then I attended an ALJC church from that time until I left in 1978 or maybe 1979. During that time I was a licensed minister at different times with three different organizations --The Church of Jesus Christ; The Church of Jesus Christ Pentecostal Faith; and the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ. As we heard and read about people known as the Jesus People or the Jesus Freaks, and then later on folks called Charismatics we looked down our righteous noses at them. This couldn't be real. They didn't look like us. They didn't dress like us. They didn't baptize like us. They didn't believe like us. The didn't come to us to receive the Holy Ghost Baptism. We thought we had the exclusive franchise for God's Spirit. They went directly to God with hunger and thirst in their hearts, and, as He promised, He filled them. It took a while for this to soak through my hard head and my proud heart. God is pouring out His Spirit on ALL flesh, not just UPC, PAW, CoJC, ALJC, AMF, GIB flesh, but all flesh just like He said in His Word.
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