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09-22-2008, 09:02 PM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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Originally Posted by Blubayou
AFF has helped me:
Know that there are a lot of different beliefs in the Apostolic Circle
Know what I believe and be able to express that belief
Know there are a lot of great people out there that I now count as friends and prayer partners
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Actually, the Apostolic circle is made up of a bunch of little circles in side one big circle but none of the circles touch or overlap, and when asked each of them say they love being the big circle.
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09-22-2008, 09:42 PM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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Originally Posted by Carpenter
Actually, the Apostolic circle is made up of a bunch of little circles in side one big circle but none of the circles touch or overlap, and when asked each of them say they love being the big circle.
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Yep! 
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09-22-2008, 09:44 PM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
I have learned (as I long suspected) that Oneness Pentecostals are no different than any other group in the body of Christ... we agree, and we disagree - and sometimes even agree to disagree - and it can all happen while respecting our brothers and sisters.
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I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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09-22-2008, 10:21 PM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
speaking of circles,
when I read that I remembered an old poem:
He drew a circle and shut me out
as a heretic, a thing to flout,
but love and I had the will to win,
we drew a circle and shut him in.
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Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
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09-22-2008, 10:46 PM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
I have learned (as I long suspected) that Oneness Pentecostals are no different than any other group in the body of Christ... we agree, and we disagree - and sometimes even agree to disagree - and it can all happen while respecting our brothers and sisters.
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Careful, them there comments is mighty close to callin' oneness pentecostals a religious denomination. You knows how'n they hate that! Cordin to them, the body don' got no "others" in it.
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09-23-2008, 12:03 AM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
I've learned to keep my opinions to myself.
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09-23-2008, 05:32 AM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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It has increased my apathy, and greatly enhanced my general disregard for humankind. It has helped to center my perspectives on the definition of time-wasting. It has shown me that there are, indeed, places where cognitive dissonance is viewed as a skill instead of a liability. It has convinced me that the self-deluded desire company, not deliverance. It has thoroughly disproven the mathematical randomness theory that a million monkeys, banging on a million typewriters, would eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. It has shown me that human singularity of thought is truly possible: Most people get the idea that all the other people are here for their personal amusement.
To be fair, I should also mention that there have been some negative impacts as well.
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09-23-2008, 06:00 AM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
It has increased my apathy, and greatly enhanced my general disregard for humankind. It has helped to center my perspectives on the definition of time-wasting. It has shown me that there are, indeed, places where cognitive dissonance is viewed as a skill instead of a liability. It has convinced me that the self-deluded desire company, not deliverance. It has thoroughly disproven the mathematical randomness theory that a million monkeys, banging on a million typewriters, would eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. It has shown me that human singularity of thought is truly possible: Most people get the idea that all the other people are here for their personal amusement.
To be fair, I should also mention that there have been some negative impacts as well.
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Yet, here it is 7:00 a.m. and you are here!
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09-23-2008, 06:01 AM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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Originally Posted by Carpenter
Careful, them there comments is mighty close to callin' oneness pentecostals a religious denomination. You knows how'n they hate that! Cordin to them, the body don' got no "others" in it.
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I have also learned all groups have their radicals, and I should not feel compelled to eradicate each of them...
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"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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09-23-2008, 04:24 PM
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Re: How Belonging to AFF has Helped Me...
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Originally Posted by Dimples
Yet, here it is 7:00 a.m. and you are here!
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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
It has increased my apathy, and greatly enhanced my general disregard for humankind. It has helped to center my perspectives on the definition of time-wasting. It has shown me that there are, indeed, places where cognitive dissonance is viewed as a skill instead of a liability. It has convinced me that the self-deluded desire company, not deliverance. It has thoroughly disproven the mathematical randomness theory that a million monkeys, banging on a million typewriters, would eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. It has shown me that human singularity of thought is truly possible: Most people get the idea that all the other people are here for their personal amusement.
To be fair, I should also mention that there have been some negative impacts as well.
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Joke, Dimples.
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Engineering solutions for theological problems.
Despite today's rising cost of living, it remains popular.
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Sir Winston Churchill
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Sir Winston Churchill
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." - Benjamin Franklin
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