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<blockquote data-quote="Forever trying" data-source="post: 63258326" data-attributes="member: 91474"><p>Okay so I'm a Christian of the Catholic faith. But I ALSO go to a Pentecostal church, because quite frankly to me all that matters is good preaching, and to the same God. Everything else is just the different ways we praise him. Now in Australia (and increasingly internationally), Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox churches are all great at getting on (bar from some old funny-duddys), recongnising their similarities, and hold joint services, and cooperation. However, talking to a couple of Pentecostals, they rave on about all other denominations (ie Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Orthodox, etc, etc) are unsaved, and haven't received the Holy Spirit. Even though in general I love the sense of Christian fellowship in the Pentecostal churches (I've been to more than one) this sort of judgement on the other Christian churches I find disturbing. Labelling them less Christian and their denominations don't count. As well as treating it like a competition as to which denomination is the biggest, compared to just how many people are or becoming Christians in general. Whereas with the traditional churches I've mentioned, we have our politcal and theological differences, but we don't condemn (except 100 years ago so to speak) other ones to hell, or accused them of being less Christian. Now I haven't heard this from every Pentecostal at all. Most are great, God loving people. But I've heard it enough to wonder is this the actual views that Pentecostal have of other denominations, or is this the views of only a few misguided individuals I've unfortunately come across?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Forever trying, post: 63258326, member: 91474"] Okay so I'm a Christian of the Catholic faith. But I ALSO go to a Pentecostal church, because quite frankly to me all that matters is good preaching, and to the same God. Everything else is just the different ways we praise him. Now in Australia (and increasingly internationally), Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox churches are all great at getting on (bar from some old funny-duddys), recongnising their similarities, and hold joint services, and cooperation. However, talking to a couple of Pentecostals, they rave on about all other denominations (ie Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Orthodox, etc, etc) are unsaved, and haven't received the Holy Spirit. Even though in general I love the sense of Christian fellowship in the Pentecostal churches (I've been to more than one) this sort of judgement on the other Christian churches I find disturbing. Labelling them less Christian and their denominations don't count. As well as treating it like a competition as to which denomination is the biggest, compared to just how many people are or becoming Christians in general. Whereas with the traditional churches I've mentioned, we have our politcal and theological differences, but we don't condemn (except 100 years ago so to speak) other ones to hell, or accused them of being less Christian. Now I haven't heard this from every Pentecostal at all. Most are great, God loving people. But I've heard it enough to wonder is this the actual views that Pentecostal have of other denominations, or is this the views of only a few misguided individuals I've unfortunately come across? [/QUOTE]
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