FEAR FACTOR: Pentecostal/Apostolic Style

[Innocuous]

I confess that I haven't read all 120+ posts on this thread. I'm responding here to the main point in the original post and MOW's comments about following the move of God.

When Azusa street broke out there were many detractors, including Phineas Bresee, founder of the Nazarene Church, who called it 'strange fire'. The following is a quote from Melvin Dieter's essay "Weslyan-Holiness aspects of Pentecostal origins: As Mediated through the nineteenth century holiness revival" as published in a work by Vinson Synan.

Speaking of Pentecostal pioneer Frank Bartleman, Dieter writes, "His reactions to Azusa Street were quite the opposite of Bresee's. Stirred by the revivals in Wales in 1904, he feared that the spiritual awakening might pass the holiness movement by. The holiness people, he judged, were 'loaded down to the water's edge with a spirit of prejudice and pharisaism.' 'They are too proud of their standing, ' he said, and warned that God 'might humble them by working in other places.'

Hmmm.....sounds prophetic...or like a commentary of current conditions in some quarters.

[ManOfWord]

Originally Posted by Innocuous

I confess that I haven't read all 120+ posts on this thread. I'm responding here to the main point in the original post and MOW's comments about following the move of God.

When Azusa street broke out there were many detractors, including Phineas Bresee, founder of the Nazarene Church, who called it 'strange fire'. The following is a quote from Melvin Dieter's essay "Weslyan-Holiness aspects of Pentecostal origins: As Mediated through the nineteenth century holiness revival" as published in a work by Vinson Synan.

Speaking of Pentecostal pioneer Frank Bartleman, Dieter writes, "His reactions to Azusa Street were quite the opposite of Bresee's. Stirred by the revivals in Wales in 1904, he feared that the spiritual awakening might pass the holiness movement by. The holiness people, he judged, were 'loaded down to the water's edge with a spirit of prejudice and pharisaism.' 'They are too proud of their standing, ' he said, and warned that God 'might humble them by working in other places.'

Hmmm.....sounds prophetic...or like a commentary of current conditions in some quarters.

Another interesting viewpoint from a different angle!!