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Originally Posted by hometown guy
A solution is Prayer, fasting and digging into the word and not getting on a forum of a bunch of ex apostolics that claim to be apostolic.
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Am I ex apostolic?
Lol
Ok.
According to scripture...bad company corrupts good character and if Im in sin Im supposed to be delivered unto satan so that Ill change and come to repentence.
Neither have you engaged me in ANY kind of ministry of reconciliation.
So if Im lost and in sin and not Apostolic in my beliefs....Ill ask again....what are you doing associating with us and what is your plan on winning us back to Truth?
Just gonna lob snark until we finally crawl back and shave our beards?
If you guys really believed what you said you believed youd be tearing the roads apart getting to the lost but no...people die lost on your own pews.
The last time I attended an "Apostolic" church a boy about 12 years old had been praying a bit....service had died down...I walked up and began speaking to him...after just making a simple explanation of repentence instead of trying to headlock amd noogie Jesus into his heart and just calmly leading him through a prayer of repentence he began to speak with tongues so beautifully and fluidly while church staff and members that were sooooooo worried about souls blithely walked by unconcerned...I had to start calling out,"HES SPEAKING IN TONGUES!!!!!!" and THEN after I mentioned baptism and heard the "gotta get permission" yadda yadda yadda mess
I got someone that knew the mom to call her and she gave a resounding consent...it was super cold in the baptistry so we boiled water to help it warm up ans dunked him in Jesus name.
See, I fell through the cracks sitting and growing up on an Apostolic church pew.
With all yalls vaunted discernment you couldnt see a broken abused kid addicted and bound by porn who wanted to die...that was me.
If I have had that experience in PERSON...not really putting faith in your ability to magically discern my motives and "Holiness" level through the interwebz.
Maybe you're different hometown...Id like to think maybe you'd recognize what youd see if you saw me when I needed that discenment active in my life....someone to minister to me that could look under the mask that I learned to craft from my betters while sitting on an Apostolic church pew watching those in leadership preach while wearing the same mask I wore while I sat in misery bound on a pew.
Im free now...freer than I have ever been and lemme tell ya....Im not feelin free cause I wear a beard....
Im HolyGhost filled and I walk in Holiness Ive been baptised in the only name under heaven given among men that we might be saved...that precious name of Jesus and when I baptise...its in THAT name and when I cast out demons its in THAT name and when I pray for the sick its in THAT name.
The only difference is that Im not in bondage to a building and I dont pay a temple tax and I dont suffer fools lightly when they spout off about having "truth".
Im submitted to other belivers in my life.
My wife...her dress is so modest that I feel like people look at us as Muslim...and you'd think that until she testifies boldly about being set free by the power of Jesus name from porn addiction, homosexuality, witchcraft,depression,multiple personality disorder,suicide...the list goes on....so keep on dissing those you dont know bro...just know that when you finally need someone to pray for those needs in your life....we will be here...gladly waiting to help.