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Originally Posted by tv1a
Pentecostalism is more concerned with the outer manifestations than inward man.
It is more important to believe in One God, a subjective dress code, talk in tongues like a chinese laundry, than to be a person which exhibits the Fruit of the Spirit.
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Now, you're getting down to true, authentic Holy Ghost revival territory. TRUE repentance is the second step right after initial conviction. It's a sad day in AOG and Pentecostal churches when we have convicted sinners who come to an altar or prayer room and cry right through that initial conviction and skip the step of true, Godly repentance. Crying through conviction and just saying some pre-concocted prayer is superficial and rootless.
We have people that are
moved by the presentation of the Gospel message, but aren't truly of
'changed opinion' which equals repentance. Until that change of mind on a current lifestyle and set of behaviors come, you CAN NOT have the new birth experience. If you don't have a new birth experience you have a church full of people who will be the same in ten and twenty years as they are the day they we're touched by the message, but never powerfully
changed. That's one reason Pastors have to spend way too much time trying to tend to the same folks who can't lead victorious lives, instead of spending time on new Christians or the lost.
We don't need any more outward manifestations to have a Holy Ghost revival, we need changed people in the pews.
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