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Re: Brother Ken Raggio 4 Global Minds
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Originally Posted by consapente89
Years ago our church hosted an Endtime prophecy event as an outreach to the community. It was centered around one particular teacher and certain events that were soon to unfold involving George Bush. We had tons of sinners come to that event and not one of them got saved. None of the events we told them were going to happen actually happened. In my opinion, it may have cast some shadow on the reputable nature of our church in the minds of some who attended, however I pray not.
It was a learning point for me and I honestly feel that our church has matured past that kind of sensationalism as well. I wish all of Pentecost would stop playing the guessing game and just preach the Gospel and be led of the Holy Ghost. Give us a few Acts 5 experiences and we wont need sensationalism to put fear in people's hearts. |
I remember a few decades ago there was a man who was all the rage in OP circles. He claimed to have been a CIA operative and spoke about all of this inside information about that supercomputer in Belgium many Christians feared was "the Beast" back in the 70's and 80's. His stories of his life and exploits got wilder and wilder until some enterprising preacher added it all up and it would have been impossible for him to have done all he said he had done and been in all of the places he said he had been in at his age. He eventually got discredited but not before many churches heavily advertised meetings with this charlatan. Luckily there was no internet then and the mainstream media didn't care so very few folks who heard this guy ever knew it was all a scam.
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"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"
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