Sentences with phrase «from pentecostal»

Even though he supported Diaz, however, on one key LGBTQ issue the assemblymember has separated himself from the Pentecostal minister, voting, since his first term in office, for GENDA.

There are Nigerians, and by no means only Muslims, who say President Jonathan is too close to some of the hugely popular «super pastors» who have grown rich from their Pentecostal churches.

From Pentecostal communities like Deliverance Church in Kenya to international programs like Youth Alive, the reality of human beings as whole persons created by God forms the bedrock for transfigured practical existence.

Getting my ordination from a Pentecostal denomination, you would think I was a pro concerning the Holy Spirit, since Pentecostals notoriously focus on the Holy Spirit in lieu of Chrisy himself.

They did little while the older guard was still alive, but once the senior leaders who practiced racism (e.g. by excluding black denominations from the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America) died or went into retirement they exposed the problem and proposed a radical solution: disband the PFNA and ask African - American Pentecostal leaders to start a new umbrella association for Pentecostal cooperation and, if they wanted to, to invite white Pentecostals into it.

Christian Voice drew heavily from Pentecostal circles.

«So how did you go from Pentecostal to Lutheran?»

They come from a variety of church backgrounds, from Pentecostal to Roman Catholic, and are studying different subjects at university or college.

This woman hailed from a Pentecostal background, and I always watched with some disappointment as she clearly felt constrained in worship, as if she needed to sit on her hands.

In publishing this book we recognize the importance of learning from Pentecostals, but at the same time we take into the account the contributions the historic churches can make to Pentecostal churches.

He also refers to himself not as a «Protestant» but as a «Christian» (or an «evangelical»), an umbrella term that, according to Mexican Protestants, covers followers of Christ ranging from Pentecostals to Presbyterians to various nondenominational gatherings but excludes Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Not exact matches

S. Palin's Three B Syndrome came from the RCC and the Assemblies of God church, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination.

Think of the souls that will be rescued by this man from the error of the Pentecostals and others that have encouraged those poor people to stray from the loving, enfolding arms of the one true Church.

But for all its diversity, the Assembly was far from «representative» of the church; most of the world's Christians who are found in Catholic, Pentecostal, and evangelical fellowships would find little of the familiar in Canberra.

In Pentecostal circles, theology and practice are inseparable, so I would like to offer some observations drawn from my own experiences «on the ground» in Pentecostal churches, which may help corroborate and clarify some of Smith's insights.

As with the mystical tradition in general, the danger is that the Pentecostal mystical experience becomes a mere escape from the world rather than a preparation for a purposeful reinsertion into the world.

In the next years, I learned wonderful things from Mennonites and Pentecostals.

I'm from a Charismatic Pentecostal church and am currently going through a very tough time in my church - going aspect.

I spoke with Christians from 20 nations, from Ghana to the Republic of South Africa, representing the relatively new national union churches (such as the United Church of Zambia), the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Roman Catholics, Pentecostal Assemblies of God and the Salvation Army.

I also thought that born again Spirit filled persons can not have demons until a co Pentecostal pastor ask me to assist him in delivering his wife from demons that had entered her after she involved herself in a lesbian relationship.

The requirement to practice religion only in registered places of worship creates a Catch - 22 for Russian Protestants, who are often blocked by the state from obtaining property on which to build those houses of worship, Pentecostal Union deputy bishop Konstantin Bendas told Forum 18.

They are Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, Mennonites, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Pentecostals, and I have benefitted from their insights and shepherding in ways too numerous to name.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

Many Pentecostals equate the call to mission with the call to become entrepreneurs; they draw strength from capitalism's promotion of creation and innovation.

That speaking in tongues was absent from the AG's national policy meeting would surprise many who might assume that the largest predominantly white Pentecostal fellowship in the U.S. embraces the practice heartily.

One consequence of globalization is that the walls that have long divided Catholics from Orthodox, mainline Protestants, evangelicals, and Pentecostals are eroding.

Her subsequent conversion story sounds «crazy» to most people, she says, especially the bit about bursting into tears at 3 am in a shopping centre after a Pentecostal Christian from Sierra Leone prayed for her.

The «Pentecostal» enthusiasm of the disciples arose, not from reflection about the value of a dead man's deeds and words, but from the conviction that that man was alive as Lord and Messiah and that they could testify from their experience of actual encounter with him that God had glorified him.

In my survey of 1,275 AG adherents from 16 different congregations, only 30 percent were raised in the Assemblies; an additional 10 percent were converts from other Pentecostal sects.

Chicago is a wonderful treasure chest of such congregations from all across the spectrum — Catholic, nondenominational, mainline and Pentecostal.

Meanwhile, 50,900 adults make the pilgrimage to Notre Dame for a Pentecostal rally, a teen - age guru turns on young people from coast to coast, and demand rises for books that run the gamut from thin prayer guides to thick encyclopedias of theology.

Among white Pentecostals the pressure comes from the charismatics, who are shedding certain classical Pentecostal doctrines, particularly «the baptism of the Holy Spirit» and its being «evidenced» by speaking in tongues.

Pentecostals range from the most developed Assemblies of God churches (increasingly taking on the shape of wider Protestant church life) through southern Holiness - Pentecostal churches, the intensely sectarian «Jesus only» unitarian Pentecostals, and large black and ethnic churches, to the uncharacteristic extremes of Appalachian «snake - handlers,» all too often the only public image of «holy rollers.»

Largely excluded from the PFNA when the whites were joining the NAE, and more likely to find solidarity with the other black churches than with the white Pentecostals or evangelicals, these churches are much less tempted by a fundamentalist identity.

If such patterns of accommodation continue, Holiness and Pentecostal folk will become even more indistinguishable from other Christians.

No uniform pattern emerges, but the variety will be a source of ferment as the Holiness and Pentecostal churches continue to assert themselves and to emerge from isolation to claim a significant place among other churches of Christendom.

Allowing that these defections from Catholicism may have been overestimated, Jenkins says the rapid increase in conversions is nonetheless phenomenal, and in some countries — Guatemala, Chile, Brazil — Pentecostals already represent a powerful numeric bloc.

Not bad for someone who came from a WV Pentecostal background.

These vary from the ritualized formality of the Roman and Orthodox Catholic Churches to the simplicity of some Protestant denominations, to the free form among some of the Pentecostal churches.

And yet, according to Franz Damen, a Catholic missionary from Belgium who works in Bolivia, «every hour an average of 400 Catholics become members of Pentecostal sects.»

After a prayer at the Thailand meeting a Pentecostal pastor from Serbia told me it was the first time he had heard of an Orthodox priest blessing something an evangelical was involved with.

She sees as promising and gratifying the openness and participation of Pentecostals in dialogue with other Christian churches on a broad range of issues — from theological and liturgical matters to the question of women's participation in church and society.

Evangelicals and Pentecostals, indigenous and mestizos, have joined together to improve their social and economic situation, and to provide legal defense for people evicted from their ancestral lands because of their faith.

This focus implicitly stigmatizes Pentecostals for their alienation from society.

Growing up Pentecostal, I had been taught that prayer needed to be from the heart.

When a delegation from the United Presbyterian Church of the United States visited Brazil in 1977, we had the opportunity to have a long interview with the missionary Manoel de Mello, now deceased, who was the founder and president of the Brazil for Christ Church, one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the country.

In a welcome departure from the past, evangelicals and Pentecostals who are making great advances in that part of the world were not excoriated as alien «sects» and tools of Yankee imperialism.

Now in its thirty - sixth year, the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration, sponsored by the International Christian Embassy (ICEJ — the J stands for its headquarters in Jerusalem), attracts thousands of Pentecostal Christians from around the world to Israel.

I do not think Pentecostals should be so preoccupied with what is going on in these circles as to be distracted from making their own distinct contributions to the body of Christ and set the agenda for theological conversations they are uniquely qualified to further.»