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10/11/07 3:51 PM |
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Well SavedByGrace, at least we're agreed on something . Another reason I grew indifferent to the Initial Evidence doctrine is because I've been in other non-pentecostal churches where the pastor prayed that God would fill believers with the Holy Spirit, yet none spoke in tongues. Many churches confess with the ancient creeds "I believe in the Holy Spirit..." yet they don't all speak in tongues. It's my understanding the Initial Evidence doctrine caused permanent division which continues to this day. Example: Church of the Nazarene lays emphasis on the Holy Spirit and infilling yet never accepted the initial evidence doctrine while the Assemblies of God, stemming from the same early revivals accepted the doctrine. From the point of view of the Nazarenes and other Holiness churches(among others outside the Holiness Movement), this doctrine was a novelty and aberration and was not accepted. For this reason, what was once the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene became the Church of the Nazarene. Just a little interesting history. |
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10/11/07 2:53 PM |
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No need for a sermon to get the point Jim, but thanks anyway . Others may need some emphatic words from a sermon to learn the truth of the matter. |
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10/10/07 1:11 AM |
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What one Reformed confession says about the Church: "With respect to those, who are members of the Church, they may be known by the marks of Christians: namely, by faith; and when they have received Jesus Christ the only Savior, they avoid sin, follow after righteousness, love the true God and their neighbor, neither turn aside to the right or left, and crucify the flesh with the works thereof. But this is not to be understood, as if there did not remain in them great infirmities; but they fight against them through the Spirit, all the days of their life, continually taking their refuge in the blood, death, passion and obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ, "in whom they have remission of sins, through faith in him." As for the false Church, she ascribes more power and authority to herself and her ordinances than to the Word of God, and will not submit herself to the yoke of Christ. Neither does she administer the sacraments as appointed by Christ in his Word, but adds to and takes from them, as she thinks proper; she relieth more upon men than upon Christ; and persecutes those, who live holily according to the Word of God, and rebuke her for her errors, covetousness, and idolatry. These two Churches are easily known and distinguished from each other." |
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