No delta this was a newbee I could tell by the skoal can in his back pocket....LOL I just was just trying to think of why they would not come back if he had "such a good feeling"
Ok we had a young couple in our church came one Sunday first time to attend a church and some members of the church went over and laided hands on them and prayed for them and when Sunday school started the young man stood up and testified how good of a feeling he got that he wanted to come out of his clothes the feeling felt so good..now here is the kicker they have not been back to the church since. Now my question is if this really felt as good as he said it did why would they not come back...
Ok we had a young couple in our church came one Sunday first time to attend a church and some members of the church went over and laided hands on them and prayed for them and when Sunday school started the young man stood up and testified how good of a feeling he got that he wanted to come out of his clothes the feeling felt so good..now here is the kicker they have not been back to the church since. Now my question is if this really felt as good as he said it did why would they not come back...
GREAT post!
For me, the answer is simple.....emotionalism feels good but it does nothing to change a life.
Colossians 2:23 talks about human efforts to be Godly, but then says, "But they have no effect when it comes to conquering a person's evil thoughts and desires."
Of course, the other possibility is, they found out how they were gonna have to dress and all the things they couldn't do anymore that made no sense, and they hit the trail for a church that ALSO had God's power of grace and went there instead.
Ok we had a young couple in our church came one Sunday first time to attend a church and some members of the church went over and laided hands on them and prayed for them and when Sunday school started the young man stood up and testified how good of a feeling he got that he wanted to come out of his clothes the feeling felt so good..now here is the kicker they have not been back to the church since. Now my question is if this really felt as good as he said it did why would they not come back...
He could have been freaked out later and had second thoughts. I was in a normal church service at World of Pentecost in Austin, Texas in the 90's and a guy in his 20's visiting got so touched / blessed / convicted / freaked out (I don't know which) that he tried to run out of the church and ran right through one of the glass doors in the foyer going outside!!! Not a second hand story. I witnessed it with my own eyes. The ushers chased him down outside to make sure he was ok.
__________________ "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"
He could have been freaked out later and had second thoughts. I was in a normal church service at World of Pentecost in Austin, Texas in the 90's and a guy in his 20's visiting got so touched / blessed / convicted / freaked out (I don't know which) that he tried to run out of the church and ran right through one of the glass doors in the foyer going outside!!! Not a second hand story. I witnessed it with my own eyes. The ushers chased him down outside to make sure he was ok.
Yikes!
Are there warning signs posted, now?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I tried to find one of those stick figure signs, where the little guy is crashing through the glass, but oh well. I have a collection of pictures of signs like that, somewhere. You know, body twisted in the drive shaft of farm machinery, fingers being severed by spinning blades, stuff like that. That little guy goes through so much pain, for our safety!
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