OzSpen
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Dean,
Did you notice what you did in your reply to me? I wrote about Lawrence Justice's presuppositions that need to be exposed to a biblical critique. So what did you do?
The Pentecostal Church of God is not a known church in my state of Queensland. However, I know of the Church of God in the 7 years I lived in the USA.
However, I know Pentecostalism through and through. I'm a former Assemblies of God pastor who taught in an Assemblies of God theological college for 5 years. So don't even try to say I don't know of what happens in Pentecostalism. I left that movement when I could no longer support the Acts 2:4 doctrine that tongues is the initial physical evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
However, in this discussion we are right off topic and we should not be pursuing it. About 15 minutes from where I live there is a Baptist Church that is as Pentecostal as any Assemblies of Church I have ever attended. So here in Queensland, Australia, the gift of tongues is practised in Baptist churches. My son was an MDiv graduate last year from Malyon College (Brisbane), the Baptist theological college, and he told me that in the courses he took, tongues and the other gifts of the Spirit were 'non-issues'. By that he meant that Queensland Baptists, in that training college (the only one in Qld), are open to the full range of the gifts of the Spirit here in Qld.
May you have a good day in the Lord.
In Christ, Oz
P.S. Who is your Geez?
Did you notice what you did in your reply to me? I wrote about Lawrence Justice's presuppositions that need to be exposed to a biblical critique. So what did you do?
- Complained about the Pentecostal Church of God;
- Complained abut the pastor who says, "Let's pray in tongues";
- Baptism and speaking in tongues;
- I jumped all over your article without seeing the big picture.
- You know what Pentecostalism does.
- Does everybody in the church receive the same gift?
- 500 people speaking in tongues and it is wrong.
- Then I nit pick what you post.
The Pentecostal Church of God is not a known church in my state of Queensland. However, I know of the Church of God in the 7 years I lived in the USA.
However, I know Pentecostalism through and through. I'm a former Assemblies of God pastor who taught in an Assemblies of God theological college for 5 years. So don't even try to say I don't know of what happens in Pentecostalism. I left that movement when I could no longer support the Acts 2:4 doctrine that tongues is the initial physical evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
However, in this discussion we are right off topic and we should not be pursuing it. About 15 minutes from where I live there is a Baptist Church that is as Pentecostal as any Assemblies of Church I have ever attended. So here in Queensland, Australia, the gift of tongues is practised in Baptist churches. My son was an MDiv graduate last year from Malyon College (Brisbane), the Baptist theological college, and he told me that in the courses he took, tongues and the other gifts of the Spirit were 'non-issues'. By that he meant that Queensland Baptists, in that training college (the only one in Qld), are open to the full range of the gifts of the Spirit here in Qld.
May you have a good day in the Lord.
In Christ, Oz
P.S. Who is your Geez?
How many times have you visited a Church of God?
How many times have you heard the Pastor as I have say to the congregation "Lets pray in tongues"?
When you were baptized, did you speak in tongues?
Here again, you jumped all over my article without seeing the big picture.
Secondly, having a brother that prefered to go to a Church of God, I know what Pentecostalism does.
Having a brother-in-law who was born and raised in a Church of God, he would bear witness to the truth about what Lawrence Justice has said.
And it has been my experience that Pentecostalism, does place more emphasis on the speaking in tongues than anything else.
My brother-in-law Spiritwarrior47 (member here) would agree as to what I just posted.
Paul also said something to the effect that does everybody in the church get the same gift?
If I walk into a Church of God and there are 500 members speaking in tongues, that is wrong and not scriptural.
Now I'm not a cessationalist, I do believe that the gifts are for today as much as 2000 years ago. Just not to the extent as the CoG believes and practices.
And if you would take the time to read what he said rather than nit-pick what I post, you would see his emphasis is on the abuse and over emphais of said gifts.
Pick, pick, pick.
Geez...
God Bless
Till all are one.
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