Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas
I had a great great great great grandfather in the American Methodist Episcopal church.In reading some biography I found that when someone "comes to Christ" that they were not encouraged to just accept they were saved at faith. Rather they were encouraged to seek God for some sort of experience that confirmed their salvation. Is it any wonder that early Methodists in many cases spoke in tongues and had other Pentecostal like experiences? Anyone else have knowledge of this?
|
Oh, yes. This type of behavior by the Methodists is recorded in
The New York Times.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...CF&oref=slogin
....Well, look at the bottom of the page. That was quite a while ago.
Threaded Mode
