Why are Pentecostals so hateful?? - Page 3

not4saken · #21 01-30-2013, 11:36 AM

Maybe they're going thru "The Change"???

RandyWayne · #22 01-30-2013, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Cindy

Pot meet kettle.

Praxeas · #23 01-30-2013, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by LifeUncommon

I don't know if this is something that is unique to my area or not, but the Pentecostals here are so hateful!

There is no love. If you don't go to their church (literally their 4 walls) you are shunned, ignored, etc. They won't even "fellowship" with other Pentecostal churches in the city. Or even family, unless they attend the same church.

I do not get this. What happed to loving others? What happened to banding together with our Christian brothers and sisters and helping each other along the way?

And if they think people who go to other churches aren't saved (not their call, but just for argument sake), wouldn't that be MORE reason to be salt and light and help lead them in what they consider to be the right direction?

I have even heard people close to me say they "don't care what happens to that church or anyone in it" when their own siblings and parents go to "that" church, not to mention people they literally grew up with.

How in the world can you love on and minister to a lost and dying world if you can't love other Christians or even your own family??

There is a church in a neighboring city. Their members have been brainwashed by the Pastor to believe that other Pentecostals (UPC) are backslidden compromisers.

Recently a landslide of members have either left that church to go to other Pentecostal churches or just stopped going to church. They had enough of that Pastor

The problem is everyone of them left scarred and really internally unure if they could go to other Pentecostal churches because of what they had been taught for years.

We have several in my church and my friends church in another city has several.

These people are the result of bad Pastoring in a bad system focuses entirely their "gospel" on other churches being bad and a constant diet of nothing but what you should not be doing (ie watching TV etc etc).

While the members are partly to blame for being ignorant and enablers the problem is the Pastoring.

Praxeas · #24 01-30-2013, 01:10 PM

BTW we had a member leave that church for ours....the first 2 services she stayed in the parking lot instead of coming inside

Praxeas · #25 01-30-2013, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by LifeUncommon

I don't know if this is something that is unique to my area or not, but the Pentecostals here are so hateful!

There is no love. If you don't go to their church (literally their 4 walls) you are shunned, ignored, etc. They won't even "fellowship" with other Pentecostal churches in the city. Or even family, unless they attend the same church.

I do not get this. What happed to loving others? What happened to banding together with our Christian brothers and sisters and helping each other along the way?

And if they think people who go to other churches aren't saved (not their call, but just for argument sake), wouldn't that be MORE reason to be salt and light and help lead them in what they consider to be the right direction?

I have even heard people close to me say they "don't care what happens to that church or anyone in it" when their own siblings and parents go to "that" church, not to mention people they literally grew up with.

How in the world can you love on and minister to a lost and dying world if you can't love other Christians or even your own family??

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

The "United" part in the "United Pentecostal Church" is kind of a nebulous concept...

Do we know they are UPC?

BTW in my example the church was UPC but left years ago when the others split

LifeUncommon · #26 01-30-2013, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Aquila

You become conformed into the image of what you worship. If one worships a God that they invision as behaving in a manner that we might define as hateful, angry, bitter, judgmental, etc.... that is what they will become.

The greatest form of idolatry is allowing yourself to be conformed into the image of a religion... and not Jesus.

LOVE THIS LINE: The greatest form of idolatry is allowing yourself to be conformed into the image of a religion... and not Jesus

LifeUncommon · #27 01-30-2013, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by strait shooter

I live in the southwest and folks get along just fine here. I don't know a lot of hateful Pentecostals....

In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions.

If you are involved with something that is a bit sketchy....just demonize those who don't agree with what you are doing and it takes the attention off your shortcomings.

The democrats and liberals have perfected this as an art.

I almost wish that were the case. Here in Kentucky, it is par for the course.