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To: DungeonMaster
I wonder what percentage of Pentecostals believe "You must speak in tongues to be saved". That is quite a doctrinal error.

I don't know of any and I have grown up and spent most of my life in spirit filled churches. Most I know believe that if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are saved. But, if you stop there and don't "earnestly seek" the gifts of the spirit, you miss out on a power in your walk that brings incredible dimension to your life.

I have spent my last 5 years in a Wesleyan church, filled with people who are saved and going to heaven, and I have been amazed at the numbers of folks who are too timid to pray out loud...even in a small group setting, those who have a "head" Christianity, those who don't get that you don't have to understand everything that happens, but that you have to trust that God is using it all to work in your lives....it is a very controlled and intellectualized version of living a life of freedom and power that I have come to know in a spirit filled church.

342 posted on 10/09/2006 9:03:37 AM PDT by KsSunflower
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To: KsSunflower
I have spent my last 5 years in a Wesleyan church, filled with people who are saved and going to heaven, and I have been amazed at the numbers of folks who are too timid to pray out loud...even in a small group setting,

That's not a denomination issue, that's just a personality issue. Some people are just shy and that shyness keeps them away from more outgoing denominations.

those who have a "head" Christianity, those who don't get that you don't have to understand everything that happens, but that you have to trust that God is using it all to work in your lives....it is a very controlled and intellectualized version of living a life of freedom and power that I have come to know in a spirit filled church.

Obviously it's very possible to go to far in either direction.

I work with a couple of Apostolic Pentecostals. They are very much "speak in tongues or you are not saved".

369 posted on 10/09/2006 9:55:46 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Man defiles a rock when he chips it with a tool. Ex 20:25)
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