__________________ "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
100% so far, I suppose that would qualify for an apostolic forum.
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
Some posted here and said they were NOT apostolic, but they obviously never Voted. Maybe they're afraid they'll get booted off, so they won't say.
__________________ ...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Besides growing up I considered myself Pentecostal. None of the churches I was around used the term "Apostolic" so I never considered myself that.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
lets see growing up the name of our church was Licking Valley Pentecostal Chapel but the group my family was with was the Apostolic Ministers Fellowship. So for the past 40 years I have never known anything other than the use of both terms. The reason was because we believed in both the experience from the day of Pentecost and in teaching what is considered the Apostles doctrine. So I would have to say yes I consider myself Apostolic. I also consider myself Pentecostal. I also consider myself a child of the King. You know what? It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of me. The Apostles could be alive and well today and it would not matter what they think of me. I only worry about my relationship with God. Each and every one of us should spend less time worrying about what Steve Epley, CC1, Sheri, Falla, Sis A, Timmy, Scotty, or anyone else is doing and how saved they are. We need to spend more time worrying about our own relationship with God and how we can improve it. We start improving our relationship with God and others see what things are happing in our lives and they will want to know more.
Personally I could careless the name on the door but if Truth is being taught to the people who attend.
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