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Assemblies of God Pastor Sees Walkout after LGBT Rebuke
TruNews ^ | 06/29/2016 | TruNews

Posted on 06/30/2016 7:19:38 AM PDT by aimhigh

After a series of messages over several weeks encouraging the listeners to respond to the ‘fire of God’, Pastor Bates waded into the controversy over homosexuality, highlighting it’s sin as compared to Scripture:

“I was literally shocked, personally, when I began to see people get up, move out, walk out the door kinda shaking their heads. “

Bates says that the people who were most likely to walk out on a message on the Biblical stance of homosexuality are those people with relationship connections with those in the LGBT community. Be it a son, daughter or parent, many going to traditional churches that seek to maintain Biblical standards are being actively challenged by the LGBT agenda in our nation.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: ag; assembliesofgod; christians; endtimes; homosexualagenda; lastdays; lgbt; pentecostalism
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1 Thess 4:1-8 says that whoever rejects God's command against sexual immorality rejects God.
1 posted on 06/30/2016 7:19:38 AM PDT by aimhigh
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Well, maybe those people needed to leave. Somewhere there’s a church with a rainbow on the sign where they’ll be right at home.


2 posted on 06/30/2016 7:22:04 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalry)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Agreed.


3 posted on 06/30/2016 7:22:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: aimhigh

You can count on the vast majority of Pentecostal and charismatic pastors to hold the line against sodomy. In any pulpit where the Holy Spirit is taken seriously, there will be a hard stance against sin and cultural deterioration. There’s a sifting going on.


4 posted on 06/30/2016 7:23:26 AM PDT by Genoa
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I could see this happening in a mainline church, but very shocked this has reached the Assembles of God. I guess the cultural indoctrination has gone very deep.


5 posted on 06/30/2016 7:23:46 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: aimhigh

Christians who cannot follow the word of God have no business being in church in the first place.


6 posted on 06/30/2016 7:25:13 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: aimhigh

God is separating the wheat from the chaff.


7 posted on 06/30/2016 7:25:22 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: aimhigh

God’s word is a sharp double edged sword which separates the wheat from the chaff.


8 posted on 06/30/2016 7:25:45 AM PDT by circlecity
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That congregation, and many others, may have difficulty sharing a message of purity beyond “just don’t do it.” God created sex to be a huge, huge positive. While there are conventions of polite society, being overly prudish can also put an unnecessary wet blanket on what the good Lord made.

It probably isn’t the doctrine nearly as much as how it is presented that is the problem in a setting like this. There are a host of issues tied up with sex in this fallen world, that shouldn’t be, but the devil has warped and polluted it and people have too easily accepted that — even “normal” people.


9 posted on 06/30/2016 7:25:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Let them go. They will face God one of these days with the desire to place their child over their Lord.


10 posted on 06/30/2016 7:25:53 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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3/4 of my brother’s entire congregation (Presbyterian) left after the Pastor declared himself a liberal and then declared he would perform gay marriages no matter what the congregation said. He said they had to consider other view points.

(The majority’s doesn’t count I guess.)

The church is now in free fall financially. Church has been there since 1850.


11 posted on 06/30/2016 7:25:58 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: circlecity

Some people try to use it like Edward Scissorhands, however.


12 posted on 06/30/2016 7:26:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Well, maybe those people needed to leave.

They need to stay and listen; they need to repent.

13 posted on 06/30/2016 7:26:31 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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AG is to some extent being faced with the high cost of numerical success. Goats among the sheep. The same thing happened to the Methodists. As I said in another comment, God is sifting the churches today. He wants to know who’s in and who’s not.


14 posted on 06/30/2016 7:26:45 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: aimhigh

We may be at the start of the “Great Apostasy.” A number of signs are being made manifest; the positive attacks upon our Lord, the murder cults such as abortionists and suicide lovers, the growth in disbelief, the rise of a false religion such as Islam, the active suppression of any expression of Christianity. Fell free to add to the list.


15 posted on 06/30/2016 7:26:53 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: NorthMountain

They may end up hearing it from a more apt preacher.


16 posted on 06/30/2016 7:27:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: aimhigh; newgeezer

The church needs the “Well....Bye” attitude about some people.


17 posted on 06/30/2016 7:28:19 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Somewhere there’s a church with a rainbow on the sign where they’ll be right at home.


Metropolitan Community Church was founded specifically to minister to the homosexual community.


18 posted on 06/30/2016 7:28:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Conviction of the Holy Spirit can be very uncomfortable. Pastor needs to stand his ground.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. --Ephesians 6:10-13

19 posted on 06/30/2016 7:28:58 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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But there is also shallow cultural Christianity, which takes for granted far too much. Nobody wants to get their hands dirty with the issues implicated by sexual perversions, for instance. But when you have a toxic waste dump, you need to deal with the waste without burning down the entire property.


20 posted on 06/30/2016 7:29:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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