{"id":594,"date":"2009-10-24T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-10-24T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:39:27","slug":"pentecostal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/594\/pentecostal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecostal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;m learning HOW IMPORTANT it is for us to distance ourselves from Pentecostal Christianity (not the people, of course).\u00a0 If we are afraid and don&#8217;t distinguish, we will be rejected by a lot of people who otherwise would maybe be interested in God, and with good reason.\u00a0 The way in which the Spirit is presented in most Pentecostal places is embarrassing.\u00a0 Pentecostal doctrines\/actions\/teachings\/behaviors are completely&#8230;. well, messy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">PS.\u00a0\u00a0 Have you seen &#8220;Jesus Camp&#8221; yet?\u00a0 It&#8217;s on Google videos.\u00a0 I had to watch it in parts, because I couldn&#8217;t take the whole thing at one time.\u00a0 THAT is how a lot of people view Pentecostal experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bekah<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">I agree.\u00a0 Pentecostal Christianity is nothing like it was fifty years ago.\u00a0 It has, in fact, become a part of the abomination that those old Pentecostals hated and were fleeing from when they became &#8220;Pentecostal&#8221; in the first place by receiving the holy ghost.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">&#8220;Pentecostal&#8221; Christianity is a lot like the Disney corporation.\u00a0 It is making its living on the good reputation which a previous generation legitimately earned.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Daddy<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning HOW IMPORTANT it is for us to distance ourselves from Pentecostal Christianity (not the people, of course).\u00a0 If we are afraid and don&#8217;t distinguish, we will be rejected by a lot of people who otherwise would maybe be interested in God, and with good reason.\u00a0 The way in which the Spirit is presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}