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The Pentecostal Gold Standard: Jack Hayford continues to confound stereotypes
Christianity Today ^ | July 2005 | Tim Stafford

Posted on 07/31/2005 4:21:54 PM PDT by rhema

In 1969, 35-year-old Jack Hayford pulled up to a traffic light in front of First Baptist Church of Van Nuys. Like any other pastor in Southern California, he knew of the Baptist congregation. It was growing like a weed, drawing nationwide publicity under the leadership of Pastor Harold Fickett. Hayford's church, a few blocks down Sherman Way, was an aging Foursquare congregation with just 18 members. Two weeks before, Hayford had taken on the church temporarily while serving as dean of students at L.I.F.E. Bible College (now Life Pacific College), an institution of his Pentecostal denomination, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

Parked at the light, Hayford felt a burning sensation on his face, a startlingly physical sense of the church's intimidating presence. Through an inner voice God spoke to him, reprovingly: "You could at least begin by looking at the building."

He turned and saw nothing but a modern brick structure. "What now?" Hayford asked.

"I want you to pray for that church," God said. "What I am doing there is so great, there is no way the pastoral staff can keep up with it. Pray for them."

As Hayford began to pray, he felt an overflow of love for Van Nuys Baptist. It seemed to take no effort. Through the days to come, the same sensation came to him every time he passed by a church—any church. "I felt an overwhelming love for the church of Jesus Christ. I realized I had them in pigeonholes."

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TOPICS: Charismatic Christian; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: hayford; jackhayford; megachurch
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1 posted on 07/31/2005 4:21:56 PM PDT by rhema
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To: rhema

What a nice article. Our Catholic Charismatic group in Tulsa regularly met with Pentecostals and other Protestants, and we were all enriched.


2 posted on 07/31/2005 4:37:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: rhema; xzins; blue-duncan; Corin Stormhands; Buggman

It will be interesting to see if anyone has anything negative to say about Hayford.


3 posted on 07/31/2005 5:33:39 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe; rhema; xzins; blue-duncan; Corin Stormhands; Buggman

"It will be interesting to see if anyone has anything negative to say about Hayford."

Let every one sing the praise chorus "Majesty" before casting the first stone.


4 posted on 07/31/2005 5:43:01 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan

Majesty (Here I Am)



Here I am humbled by your Majesty
Covered by your grace so free
Here I am, knowing I'm a sinful man
Covered by the blood of the Lamb

Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine
Since you laid down your life
The greatest sacrifice

Majesty, Majesty
Your grace has found me just as I am
Empty handed, but alive in your hands
Majesty, Majesty
Forever I am changed by your love
In the presence of your Majesty

Here I am humbled by the love that you give
Forgiven so that I can forgive
Here I stand, knowing that I'm your desire
Sanctified by glory and fire

Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine
Since you laid down your life
The greatest sacrifice


OK everyone grab a rock.

5 posted on 07/31/2005 5:54:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe

Majesty

Majesty
G C G C Am
Majesty, worship His Majesty,
G D D7
Unto Jesus, be all glory, honor and praise!
G C G C Am G
Majesty, kingdom authority, flows from His throne,
D G C G
Unto His own, His anthem raise.

D D7 G C G
So exalt, lift up on high the name of Jesus.
D D7 G D7
Magnify, come glorify Christ Jesus the King.
G C G C Am
Majesty, worship His Majesty,
G D
Jesus who died, now glorified,
(C) G
King of all kings.
©1987, Songs and 1981, Rocksmith Music
Words and Music by Jack Hayford



6 posted on 07/31/2005 5:59:45 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: P-Marlowe; blue-duncan
Here is the music to the accompany the lyrics.

Majesty, worship his majesty;
Unto Jesus be all glory, honor, and praise.
Majesty, kingdom authority,
Flow from his throne unto his own, his anthem raise.
So exalt, lift up on high the name of Jesus.
Magnify, come glorify Christ Jesus, the King.
Majesty, worship his majesty,
Jesus who died, now glorified, King of all kings.

7 posted on 07/31/2005 6:01:22 PM PDT by rhema
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To: rhema; blue-duncan
Here is the music to the accompany the lyrics.

We need the Delirious version.

8 posted on 07/31/2005 6:06:06 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe

You will undoubtedly immediately notice that I have transposed the "Majesty" piece from a left handed, 4th fret, C# maj7b5 dim 7sus4 by way of a rare double capo to a simple key of G for your musical enjoyment. You can thank me later.


9 posted on 07/31/2005 6:17:11 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan
You will undoubtedly immediately notice that I have transposed the "Majesty" piece from a left handed, 4th fret, C# maj7b5 dim 7sus4 by way of a rare double capo to a simple key of G for your musical enjoyment. You can thank me later.

If you play an E minor pentatonic scale on the 12th fret using the G on the 15th fret as the root for the G chord, it will give the song a country feel.

Make sure you bend that A on the 14th fret into a Bb as much as the song permits.

You can thank me later.

10 posted on 07/31/2005 6:51:45 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Frumanchu; nobdysfool; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan

Pings to 8 & 9

Do you have any idea what they're talkin' about?

:>)


11 posted on 07/31/2005 7:48:21 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
Do you have any idea what they're talkin' about?

Speaking in tongues?

12 posted on 07/31/2005 8:35:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

and on a pentecostal thread.

for shame! :>)


13 posted on 07/31/2005 8:48:53 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
and on a pentecostal thread.

ONLY on a pentecostal thread. I only like to take the easy shots.

14 posted on 07/31/2005 9:27:45 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: P-Marlowe; Tax-chick

Catholic lady showing up with registered handbag ... but No, I don't have a single negative word to say about Pastor Jack Hayford.


15 posted on 07/31/2005 9:32:33 PM PDT by Siobhan ("Whenever you come to save Rome, make all the noise you want." -- Pius XII)
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To: Siobhan
Catholic lady showing up with registered handbag ... but No, I don't have a single negative word to say about Pastor Jack Hayford.

He's a good guy, huh? Maybe you should nominate him for the next pope. With Jack in charge, I think a lot of the prots might just "come home". ;-)

16 posted on 07/31/2005 10:23:23 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: PAR35; xzins
Speaking in tongues?

Well, kinda...it's guitar-dude stuff. If you play guitar, and could actually see what they're doing, you'd say, "Oh, I see, like this!", and play a chord similar to it, but with the fingers in different positions.

For bass players like me, we'd just watch them contort their fingers into unnatural positions, smile and hit one note, in this case a low G, 4ht string, 3rd fret, and it would sound big and full, and they'd go, "yeah, that's it!".

17 posted on 08/01/2005 3:16:23 AM PDT by nobdysfool (Faith in Christ is the evidence of God's choosing, not the cause of it.)
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To: nobdysfool; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan; PAR35

see #17

I thought you all weren't supposed to speak in tongues without an interpreter.

I'll be expectly shortly some kind of sound file with all those frets, brevets, minors, and basses.

:>)


18 posted on 08/01/2005 5:02:57 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins; nobdysfool; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan; PAR35
I thought you all weren't supposed to speak in tongues without an interpreter.

Here, maybe this will help. FWIW the E Minor pentatonic scale is identical to the G major Pentatonic Scale only instead of using the E on the 12th fret as the root, you use the G on the 15th fret (the 3rd fret in the example) as the root.


19 posted on 08/01/2005 5:23:19 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe

Alas, but we poor non-musicians consider all you said to still be in that unknown tongue...perhaps a tongue of angels, but nonetheless, a language foreign to our ears.

A real interpretation would be a sound file.

:>)


20 posted on 08/01/2005 5:46:56 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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