If you want to sing a song, stand up and sing the song. If you have a 'word from God', stand up and give it. If you want to 'worship God' then get busy and worship God. And if you just can't do that without some 'leader' or 'praise band' then you are probably not pentecostal.
God is not the author of confusion. No thanks.
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
If you want to sing a song, stand up and sing the song. If you have a 'word from God', stand up and give it. If you want to 'worship God' then get busy and worship God. And if you just can't do that without some 'leader' or 'praise band' then you are probably not pentecostal.
I think you must have accidently drank the spiked eggnog!
__________________ "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"
If you want to sing a song, stand up and sing the song. If you have a 'word from God', stand up and give it. If you want to 'worship God' then get busy and worship God. And if you just can't do that without some 'leader' or 'praise band' then you are probably not pentecostal.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
If you want to sing a song, stand up and sing the song. If you have a 'word from God', stand up and give it. If you want to 'worship God' then get busy and worship God. And if you just can't do that without some 'leader' or 'praise band' then you are probably not pentecostal.
We disagree on many thing, but this one was great.
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Study the word with and open heart For if you do, Truth Will Prevail
anyone taking shots at you over this is likely the one that got hit by the article.
LOL
I gotta say our church aint like this. That is because our pastor is more concerned about worship than professionalism. and our Music Director is vastly more interested in prayer than practice.... although practice is very high on the list.
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
Now this is funny! My big gripe with the vast majority of modern praise and worship songs is that they try to cram way too many lyrics into a song and that most songs have very little melody.
__________________ "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"
If you want to sing a song, stand up and sing the song. If you have a 'word from God', stand up and give it. If you want to 'worship God' then get busy and worship God. And if you just can't do that without some 'leader' or 'praise band' then you are probably not pentecostal.
nice. Mennonites seem able to do this without any confusion!
nice. Mennonites seem able to do this without any confusion!
Apples and oranges.
Mennonites are also basically a culture.
Very, very few convert.
And those that do either come from another Mennonite group or the Amish.
Not many new converts in those groups.
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If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under - Ronald Reagan
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