Has TV/Video Ministry Ever Produced Anything Positive In Your Life?
My best friend made his first move to God watching a Jimmy Swaggart crusade several weeks before he was witnessed to and invited to church. He was high on pot and watching tv when he came a cross a JS crusade. As the camera scanned the crowd he saw people with hands raised and tears streaming down their cheeks. He said out loud, "Those people haven't a care in the world. I wish I could be like them."
Two weeks later the brother of his best friend who happened to be a new convert witnessed to him and invited him to church. He got the Holy Ghost at that service.
My sister was in the hospital with a body full of infection due to a burst appendix. The doctors said she could go either way. A local UPC church was televising its services on cable access and my mother and sisters were in the hospital room watching the choir sing "If God Be For Me". The HG moved into the room and my family began praying and speaking in tongues. My mother said from that moment my sister started doing better.
Any other testimonials?
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I know a person who changed his life after watching Jimmy Swaggart. He eventually was baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. But he always credits JS for getting him to the place of repentance.
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A religious spirit allows people to tolerate hatred and anger under the guise of passion and holiness. Bill Johnson
Legalism has no pity on people. Legalism makes my opinion your burden, makes opinion your boundary, makes my opinion your obligation-Lucado
Some get spiritual because they see the light. Others because they feel the heat.Ray Wylie Hubbard
Definition of legalism- Damned if you do. Damned if you don't. TV
I mentioned it on another thread, but it fits here as well. I had an email misdirected to me, the address was close to mine. I replied to let them know that I received it instead of the intended party. In the course of conversation, I found out they where looking for a church and wanted to be baptized. I directed then to a minister in Tennessee and then followed up with him. They were both baptized in Jesus Name.
So I guess I'm just tying to say that God can use electronic means as He sees fit!
PS.
I once cried while listening to Chuck Swindoll on the radio as the message was used by God to touch my heart!
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Psa 119:165 (KJV) 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
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My best friend made his first move to God watching a Jimmy Swaggart crusade several weeks before he was witnessed to and invited to church. He was high on pot and watching tv when he came a cross a JS crusade. As the camera scanned the crowd he saw people with hands raised and tears streaming down their cheeks. He said out loud, "Those people haven't a care in the world. I wish I could be like them."
Two weeks later the brother of his best friend who happened to be a new convert witnessed to him and invited him to church. He got the Holy Ghost at that service.
My sister was in the hospital with a body full of infection due to a burst appendix. The doctors said she could go either way. A local UPC church was televising its services on cable access and my mother and sisters were in the hospital room watching the choir sing "If God Be For Me". The HG moved into the room and my family began praying and speaking in tongues. My mother said from that moment my sister started doing better.
Any other testimonials?
The first night I went to a Pentecostal church with my friend and they told me about the Holy Ghost and tongues and all that I was still a little skeptical. That night I went home and did something I never have before....I tuned into a religious broadcast. It was Jimmy Swaggart and he was preaching about the Holy Ghost and tongues (this was long before his arrest)...and I began to cry and thank God. This was long before I heard the nasty tirades against Trinitarians and charismatics and liberals and all that stuff.
My friend gave me a Carmen tape...one of his original works at the time, and as I drove home listening to Holy Ghost Filled Pizza and the man saying "this thing is REAL" I was crying and tossing out all my Punk tapes and other stuff. Yes it blessed me. Too bad we can get that kind of exposure....
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
I know a person who changed his life after watching Jimmy Swaggart. He eventually was baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. But he always credits JS for getting him to the place of repentance.
haha...I just read this...
__________________ Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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