Tony Spell has church in spite of the ban

[Freeindeed]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

What Tony Spell should have done is to handle the situation like the pastors in Houston did when confronted, by the lesbian mayor, with having to hand in their sermons.

They got together, along with Senator Ted Cruz, and confronted the egregious demand.

Problem solved. Mayor stands down her attack on the church's 1st Amendment rights.

Spell should have had the support of ministers across the land in order to execute this without looking like a lunatic, apostolic, right-wing idiot.

His rights were not being taken away during a pandemic. Now that we have the data behind us, we can figure out what to do next.

There are strength in numbers. No one wants to follow a stubborn, hothead to any destination.

I see your point, but what if no one in his town wanted to conduct services? I haven't heard of any other churches in that area that had services.

I know that he came across as a hothead with the bus incident, but I could only imagine all that he has dealt with the last month and a half (name calling, ridicule and other persecution).

By the way, if you haven't watched today's service online, you should try and watch it. It was very powerful. I felt he did a great job laying out his position to continue conducting services.

[diakonos]

I know that he came across as a hothead with the bus incident, but I could only imagine all that he has dealt with the last month and a half (name calling, ridicule and other persecution).

Is that how a pastor should handle “persecution?”

[Freeindeed]

Originally Posted by diakonos

Is that how a pastor should handle “persecution?”

In a perfect world no, but none of us are perfect. All of us have experienced times in our lives that we wished we would have handled things differently.

Unfortunately, Brother Spell has had to live his life with constant surveillance and cameras which captured a moment I am sure he regrets.

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by diakonos

Is that how a pastor should handle “persecution?”

Nope

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Freeindeed

I see your point, but what if no one in his town wanted to conduct services? I haven't heard of any other churches in that area that had services.

I know that he came across as a hothead with the bus incident, but I could only imagine all that he has dealt with the last month and a half (name calling, ridicule and other persecution).

By the way, if you haven't watched today's service online, you should try and watch it. It was very powerful. I felt he did a great job laying out his position to continue conducting services.

Have you viewed his Twitter account? Someone should post some screen shots. Just sayin’... Unless his account has been hacked.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by diakonos

Is that how a pastor should handle “persecution?”

Exactly? Hey, I thought you were supposed to be dumb!

[jediwill83]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Have you viewed his Twitter account? Someone should post some screen shots. Just sayin’... Unless his account has been hacked.

Parody account but oof!

[coksiw]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

I’m glad you have the freedom to express your opinions... lots of people with the opposite view you have... btw how many have been baptized or received the HG in your local church since you have not been congregating??? ....

See Nathan Harold Church in Barcelona for a case where the lockdown is worse than here and yet they have people being baptized and receiving the Holy Spirit.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by jediwill83

Parody account but oof!

Someone checked it for me and said the account has almost 4,000 followers many being UPCI. So, is it legit or not?

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by coksiw

See Nathan Harold Church in Barcelona for a case where the lockdown is worse than here and yet they have people being baptized and receiving the Holy Spirit.

God is blessing all over while people are being obedient to their Government because of the issue at hand. We had a visitor today in our drive in service who received the Holy Ghost.