Peepee, If you were given the opportunity to speak at a community gathering, but were asked not to speak on Acts 2:38, would you do it? Would you use this opportunity to come into contact with propective members?
This is NOT denying the truth as you know it! It's about NOT being offensive at a community gathering!
As for praying for at the presidentual annaugural, I wouln't do it! I would be so nervous, I would forgot what I was praying about and end up asking God to bless the food!
LOL! You are just too funny!
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I haven't taken the time to read all the way through, but I will share what I think. Personally, I have been asked to be a part of many different "religious" gatherings. Most, if not all, know who I am. I have never been asked by anyone to not speak in tongues. For me, I respect others who might be freaked out by speaking in tongues. My Christian respect for them causes me to exercise restraint. I have never forbade anyone in any prayer meeting I have overseen, on a community level, to speak in tongues. I have, however, asked people of both persuasions, for and against tongues, to be respectful of each other.
I could handle a request not to speak in tongues depending upon the attitude and purpose of the requestor. I rarely speak in tongues loudly anyway. I don't speak in tongues for people to hear me or to make a statement. It is between me and God. I'm not ashamed....I'm just not into spectacles.
Each one has to follow the Lord as these types of doors open. I was asked to MC our city-wide National Day of Prayer event this year. Probably everyone knows I am Pentecostal/Charismatic (depending on their viewpoint) and no one said anything about speaking in tongues. I have mentioned publicly in front of hundreds of people at previous events that I speak in tongues. There is a time and a place to speak in tongues. That is NOT every place and all the time. The spirit of the "prophet" is subject to the prophet. I don't think it is always about compromise. I think the main issue is respect and that goes both directions. I have told people before that I respect that they don't speak in tongues and that they should respect that I do. I won't expect them to speak in tongues if they don't expect me not to. I have also told those same people that they probably won't hear me speak in tongues, but If they do, their liberty should allow it.
Opinions are never THE ANSWER ... they are a belief .... the person who disagrees and is the target of such belief could feel like they are being called a liar .... but that is PERCEPTION ....
Dan, when your opinion is in direct opposition to what you have just stated.... and what you just stated was a matter of personal conviction, then the opinion is that the other person is a liar. sorry buddy, your perception may be inadvertant but none the less, when you state your opinion, wheither you like it our not, your opinioin is that the other person is a liar.
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Peepee, If you were given the opportunity to speak at a community gathering, but were asked not to speak on Acts 2:38, would you do it? Would you use this opportunity to come into contact with propective members?
This is NOT denying the truth as you know it! It's about NOT being offensive at a community gathering!
As for praying for at the presidentual annaugural, I wouln't do it! I would be so nervous, I would forgot what I was praying about and end up asking God to bless the food!
for one thing, not using the name Jesus is vastly different as this is something all evangelicals agree on and is not simply a matter of personal doctrine.
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