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.
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.
I expect that this will be a very isolated response (or possibly responses) within the A/G.
Our roots in the A/G go to 1973 and a glorious, supernatural, life-changing, born-again experience in a South Jersey A/G church. While we continue to grow in Grace daily in 2016 we have not been part of the A/G since the 90's.
We have ongoing friendships and contact with many A/G pastors/missionaries (were were credential-holding missionaries) who continue to faithfully serve The LORD. While the Assemblies of God has become more "corporate" over the years, they have not left the core values of preaching/teaching Who GOD is and the reality of His plan of salvation in Jesus.
The cultural indoctrination starts in pre-”schools” now-—where Heather has two mommies.
The destruction of our Constitution-—Freedoms of Thought/Speech and Religion were completed by the 60s to destroy the possibility of critical thinking in children.
Today, most children are brainwashed to believe Slavery is Freedom, Up is Down, Boys are Girls-—exactly as the Atheist/Marxists (Fichte/Wundt/John Dewey) designed in curricula-—to destroy all Traditions (Reason), the concept of mother and father, so that little children can be so warped (irrational as tribal minds) and completely owned (loyalty) by the State.
Their plan is working because parents allow the Marxists to condition and brainwash even their babies (with TV/Moveis/music and Marxist curricula).
Few parents (brainwashed themselves) realize the dehumanization which occurs in their children who are forced to be “group-(non) -thinkers” by screens and the system (public schools: all destroy Self-Reliance and the ability to think coherently (destroys the mapping of the brain). Skools embed only dependency and habits of slaves.
I thought, well that won't last, but looking at their footprint today, they are all over the world and have now spread to Texas. I believe the AG has dropped them, but that doesn't seem to phase them at all. We now get "missionaries" from California's "mother ship" sent to AG churches in small towns and they spin out from there.
If you are a Bible believing church member, get ready for persecution spoken of in Matthew. We are quickly becoming outnumbered. Our own children will be turning us in to authorities. I always knew I would be in the minority, but minority among Christians? This must be the "falling away" spoken of in Scripture.
It is and it’s a shame. Actually more than just a shame because Romans 1: 20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing: 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, 23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: 25 Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. 26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: 27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing. 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother, 31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy: 32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
My Dad is a retired AOG pastor who preached the WORD without apology but there are now people in my own family who don’t call sin, Sin because of a sister i law or friend that is LGBT and in doing so they “give approval to those who do them!” God help us and our families to Love people to Jesus but in doing so not to be caught in the web of sin ourselves even by our approval!