How many times did you ask God for the Holy Ghost?

[On The Wheel]

Originally Posted by mfblume

People whom I knew that sought it got it. It may have taken longer for some than others, but they got it. Why be "glass is half-empty" about it?

Because the glass is half empty. Furthermore, if we are truly apostolic in experience and in doctrine, shouldn't what we regard as the very moment of when salvation occurs happen precisely as it did in scripture? It bothers me that a component so central to our salvation theology completely absent from scriptural record.

Nowhere in scripture is there a hint of people coming to God in repentance and leaving the same way they came. Neither are there admonitions to keep seeking the salvation experience, pray through the obstacles until it comes or other such things.

If I am going to be Apostolic, I want things to occur the way things did in the beginning.