The Pentecostal "Prayer Througher"

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Sherri

We had a guy from New York get the Holy Ghost on the subway on the way home from a service. Bet that freaked a few people out! We also had a lady in Nashville who left a service we were doing and had to pull off of I-65 because she started weeping and speaking in tongues. God can do it anywhere, I guess!!

...and I love it when God does it.

When we do it...it's no more than the emotionalism felt at a football game.

Recently an Elder at a large UPC told me in disgust, "They are just giving the Holy ghost away" at our church.

Explaning that at the faintest sound of a "tangled tongue" or bit a quivering lip, those around the seeker all shout you got it, you got it, thats it !!!!

Then that person is pronounced filled with the Spirit.

I'd venture to say there is more of this in our churches than people who spontanously receive the spirit and speak in tongues.

In the accounts of tongues in the book of Acts there was no altar service, no altar workers involved.

The Spirit came into the lives of those who heard and received the word and ALL spoke in tongues.

No one was expecting this to happen...it just happened...god made iot happen.

When we force it to happen we do not resemble the Apostolic church that we read of in Acts.

[Brad Murphy]

Am I the only one that keeps thinking of the "Real Men of Genius" song everytime I see the thread title? Budweiser Salutes, The Pentecostal Pray-er Through-er".

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Brad Murphy

Am I the only one that keeps thinking of the "Real Men of Genius" song everytime I see the thread title? Budweiser Salutes, The Pentecostal Pray-er Through-er".

Yep.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Yep.

But now that he mentioned it, yeah! Here's to you, Mister Pentecostal Prayer-Througher!

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Brad Murphy

Am I the only one that keeps thinking of the "Real Men of Genius" song everytime I see the thread title? Budweiser Salutes, The Pentecostal Pray-er Through-er".

Real Men of Genius?

Wow, look what I've been missing.

I don't ever remember seeing any of these before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsC3ni7A88M

[Jeffrey]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

...and I love it when God does it.

When we do it...it's no more than the emotionalism felt at a football game.

Recently an Elder at a large UPC told me in disgust, "They are just giving the Holy ghost away" at our church.

Explaning that at the faintest sound of a "tangled tongue" or bit a quivering lip, those around the seeker all shout you got it, you got it, thats it !!!!

Then that person is pronounced filled with the Spirit.

I'd venture to say there is more of this in our churches than people who spontanously receive the spirit and speak in tongues.

In the accounts of tongues in the book of Acts there was no altar service, no altar workers involved.

The Spirit came into the lives of those who heard and received the word and ALL spoke in tongues.

No one was expecting this to happen...it just happened...god made iot happen.

When we force it to happen we do not resemble the Apostolic church that we read of in Acts.

Wouldn't the Acts account that I referenced, and those Sam mentioned be considered as their version of an "altar service?" I mean, how did the Apostles lay hands on them all, unless they probably all came and gathered in a common area.

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey

Wouldn't the Acts account that I referenced, and those Sam mentioned be considered as their version of an "altar service?" I mean, how did the Apostles lay hands on them all, unless they probably all came and gathered in a common area.

When the apostles laid hands on them they immediatly received the manifestion of tongues as an evidence of the Spirits indwelling.

When we lay hands on them we do it sometimes for hours, and then week after week without them recieving what we are trying to get them to receive.

We say the accounts in Acts are our model of what happens when a person receives the spirit.

I'm saying what goes on in many OP church altar service barely resembles what happened in the book of Acts accounts.

[Jeffrey]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

When the apostles laid hands on them they immediatly received the manifestion of tongues as an evidence of the Spirits indwelling.

When we lay hands on them we do it sometimes for hours, and then week after week without them recieving what we are trying to get them to receive.

We say the accounts in Acts are our model of what happens when a person receives the spirit.

I'm saying what goes on in many OP church altar service barely resembles what happened in the book of Acts accounts.

Gotcha. I thought you were taking on the whole concept of people coming forward (aka altar service).

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey

Gotcha. I thought you were taking on the whole concept of people coming forward (aka altar service).

I have NP with ppl coming forward to an altar or praying in their pew.

I have no promblem if God wants to have folks talk in tongues and or prophesy as His spirit comes into their lives.


What really bother me is four or five folks praying around the repentant seeker.

Hollering shaking them, telling them to run or jump. Telling them to say Jesus over and over again, faster, harder.

Then more often than not, telling them they almost got the Holy Ghost.

Sorry...I can not buy this as any kind of sound doctrinal practice.

I might add, I am a "one stepper".

Maybe that explains where I am coming from.

[Sherri]

I wore everyone out as I "sought" for the Holy Ghost for seven years. I had an aunt that prayed for 18 years before she got it - every time the altars were open, we went. I look back and cringe when I think about how I cried and begged God, made promises, etc. I had no real understanding of how to receive a gift. We were taught to "tarry" and that's not biblical at all.