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07-08-2008, 12:26 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
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Originally Posted by StMark
It's impacted my time mostly. I'm a lot better now as
far as managing it with the forum though.
I've gained some friends from FCF and later
lost a few of those friends
The forums have made me think a little harder
about my belief system and brush up scripture
on a few subjects.
there are some doctrines I had never heard before
coming to the forum. PCI for instance. Seriously, I thought
EVERYONE that called themselves "APOSTOLIC" was
Acts 2:28 til I came here |
You learned some folks are wrong. 
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07-08-2008, 12:34 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
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You learned some folks are wrong. |
About the friendship or the doctrine ??
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07-08-2008, 01:27 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
i have made friends and also have wasted ALOT OF TIME here!! 
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07-08-2008, 01:45 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
I learned some things I would rather have not known. But that's life I guess even on an apostolic forum. My time here has made me think, and in a way helped me decide to start going to church again.
I have been shocked, saddened, and bewildered. I have laughed, cried (tears of sadness, gladness, and just my heart being touched).
I have wondered if anyone was really listening to my pitiful attempts to connect sometimes. I have also wondered if I have said anything that offended, hurt, or otherwise caused someone to not want to connect. If I have for that I am sorry.
And I hope that I have learned that while not everyone believes exactly the way I do, I hope that I can still be a sister in Jesus to y'all.
And I have been entertained and found some that I think are long lost sisters and brothers. Funny huh, we are.....brothers and sisters in Jesus. Y'all know who you are........ 
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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07-08-2008, 05:38 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
AFF has impacted my life in a negative way. Its hindered me from doing things I need to be doing. It has caused me to be late for work, stay up too late, miss supper, its even caused me to miss church. AFF has been the biggest timewaster to invade... I mean, impact... my life. Its made me realize this thing we call the "Apostolic Faith" is the most fractured and divided religious movement on earth.
But the People. The people of AFF have impacted me in more positive ways than I can count. Of course, everyone knows how the people here impacted me this past winter. I have friends. Friends I have never seen- some I will never see- but they are friends. No- they are brothers and they are sisters who, though separated by miles, stood with me when I really needed someone to stand with me. I have sat here reading posts until tears ran down my cheeks. Tears of repentance and tears of sorrow. And, I have sat here with tears running down my cheeks- laughing my head off. I've read some powerful things, and I have come to appreciate the fractures because, like cracks in a sidewalk, they may be a little ugly, and they may cause one stumble a little from time to time, but they don't really stop a person from moving forward if they are really intent on moving forward. I have met some real men and women of God here... and, I have observed some that aren't so real. I think the people of AFF is the truest picture of what it means to be the NT church. Different people of different cultures and views all coming together in one place to seek out the things of God. Not always in agreement, but all with the same purpose- to explore God's Word together (and, just to make it interesting, adding a "News Flash" or a "Major Bombshell!" along the way.)
In a nutshell... AFF has impacted me in a positive way. I can now say I have friends. Look at my FREINDS list. See? I have friends. And there are many more thats not on that list!
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Waiting for the Lord is easy... Waiting patiently? Not so much.
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07-08-2008, 05:56 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
...it was the best of times,
...it was the worst of times.
But I have grown and made lifetime friends.
Blessings, Rhoni
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07-08-2008, 07:48 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
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Originally Posted by StMark
It's impacted my time mostly. I'm a lot better now as
far as managing it with the forum though.
I've gained some friends from FCF and later
lost a few of those friends
The forums have made me think a little harder
about my belief system and brush up scripture
on a few subjects.
there are some doctrines I had never heard before
coming to the forum. PCI for instance. Seriously, I thought
EVERYONE that called themselves "APOSTOLIC" was
Acts 2:28 til I came here |
Is this some new doctrine? 
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07-08-2008, 07:51 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
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Originally Posted by StMark
It's impacted my time mostly. I'm a lot better now as
far as managing it with the forum though.
I've gained some friends from FCF and later
lost a few of those friends
The forums have made me think a little harder
about my belief system and brush up scripture
on a few subjects.
there are some doctrines I had never heard before
coming to the forum. PCI for instance. Seriously, I thought
EVERYONE that called themselves "APOSTOLIC" was
Acts 2:28 til I came here |
Funny, because discovering there are many ACTS 2:38, "PCI" type believers is a primary reason I have enjoyed the forums. (not that I did not know somewhat before)
Strange because I never really heard of the " Acts 2:28" people you reference I thought three steppers were all sour... 
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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07-08-2008, 08:12 AM
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
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Originally Posted by cneasttx
I learned some things I would rather have not known. But that's life I guess even on an apostolic forum. My time here has made me think, and in a way helped me decide to start going to church again.
I have been shocked, saddened, and bewildered. I have laughed, cried (tears of sadness, gladness, and just my heart being touched).
I have wondered if anyone was really listening to my pitiful attempts to connect sometimes. I have also wondered if I have said anything that offended, hurt, or otherwise caused someone to not want to connect. If I have for that I am sorry.
And I hope that I have learned that while not everyone believes exactly the way I do, I hope that I can still be a sister in Jesus to y'all.
And I have been entertained and found some that I think are long lost sisters and brothers. Funny huh, we are.....brothers and sisters in Jesus. Y'all know who you are........ |
Just so you know I read every one of your posts even if I may respond to some. I am glad you are here and glad you have gone back to church!
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"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"
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07-08-2008, 08:14 AM
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Administrator
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Re: How Has AFF Impacted Your Life?
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Originally Posted by StMark
there are some doctrines I had never heard before
coming to the forum. PCI for instance. Seriously, I thought
EVERYONE that called themselves "APOSTOLIC" was
Acts 2:28 til I came here |
We believe Acts 2:38. We just believe the rest of the Bible also!
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"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"
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