Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
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Originally Posted by Margies3
Like I've said on here twice before, my pastor's brother goes to her church. Pastor Andy tells me they are "mildly Pentecostal". He said that they DO believe in speaking in tongues, but that it is not in any way emphasized and it is not something that happens often (if ever) during a service.
I thought I had read somewhere that she was raised Catholic, then baptized AOG after she reached adulthood, then changed over to the Wasilla Bible Church. Was that information incorrect?
More specific - - she went to AOG as a teenager.
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Originally Posted by CC1
Here is a link to a Newsweek story about Governor Sarah Palin's church and her church history.
Bottom line is that she was raised Roman Catholic then as a teenage began attending an Assembly of God church where she was baptized and whose pastor (now retired) she has credited with her coming to the Lord.
She attended the Pentecostal AOG church until age 38 when she began attending the Wasilla Bible Church that she currently attends.
Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
Below are the first two "basic" qualifications to become a minister in the A of G
Credential Qualifications
The following qualifications pertain to all applicants for ministerial recognition.
Basic Qualifications:
Salvation. Testimony of having experienced the new birth (John 3:5).
Baptism in The Holy Spirit. Testimony of having received the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the initial physical evidence of speaking in other tongues according to Acts 2:4. The Spirit-filled life will enable a minister to fulfill the threefold mission of the church (Article V, paragraph 10, of the Constitution).
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Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
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Originally Posted by rgcraig
Because she was raised in an AOG church.
Actually I think she was raised Roman Catholic. She started attending the AOG church when she was a teenager and left it 6 years ago when she began attending the Wasilla Bible Church.
__________________ "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"
Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
Not sure how Wasilla Bible Church fits in, but one article names Church on the Rock as her home church in Wasilla, and says she attends Juneau Christian Center when she's in Juneau. The latter is AG, but you'd hardly guess that from their website. The former is independent, and there are only hints that it may be Pentecostal in doctrine and/or practice, such as this in their Doctrinal Statement:
Holy Spirit: the baptism in the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 2:4 is given to believers who ask for it.
It seems a lot of churches and denominations are backing away from the Pentecostal distinctives, and politicians are famous for using their own special definitions of words. Palin may (for all I know) speak in tongues and may (for all I know) get instructions on running Alaska directly from God, but she may think it wise to define "Pentecostal" in a politically expedient way.
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Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
When I describe to people how I was raised, I usually just mention how the women wear long skirts, uncut hair, no jewelry and no makeup and the majority of them have known one of them before. Words mean too many different things.
Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
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Originally Posted by Brad Murphy
When I describe to people how I was raised, I usually just mention how the women wear long skirts, uncut hair, no jewelry and no makeup and the majority of them have known one of them before. Words mean too many different things.
Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
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Originally Posted by Timmy
Not sure how Wasilla Bible Church fits in, but one article names Church on the Rock as her home church in Wasilla, and says she attends Juneau Christian Center when she's in Juneau. The latter is AG, but you'd hardly guess that from their website. The former is independent, and there are only hints that it may be Pentecostal in doctrine and/or practice, such as this in their Doctrinal Statement:
It seems a lot of churches and denominations are backing away from the Pentecostal distinctives, and politicians are famous for using their own special definitions of words. Palin may (for all I know) speak in tongues and may (for all I know) get instructions on running Alaska directly from God, but she may think it wise to define "Pentecostal" in a politically expedient way.
Timmy,
She is a member of Wasilla Bible Church. Has been for six years after leaving the AOG church in Wasilla that she had attended since a teenager.
As Governor she spends time in the capitol of Alaska, Juneau, so of course she has a church or churches she visits while there. However she considers Wasilla her hom town and Wasilla Bible Church her home church.
__________________ "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"
Re: Sarah Palin "doesn't consider herself Pentecos
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Originally Posted by CC1
Timmy,
She is a member of Wasilla Bible Church. Has been for six years after leaving the AOG church in Wasilla that she had attended since a teenager.
As Governor she spends time in the capitol of Alaska, Juneau, so of course she has a church or churches she visits while there. However she considers Wasilla her hom town and Wasilla Bible Church her home church.
OK. Similar hints on their web site, so it may be a stealth Pentecostal church.
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