Sentences with phrase «pentecostal leaders»

That is why many Pentecostal leaders value so highly the freedom of the city and other symbolic honors to their persons and activities.

Pentecostal leaders have reacted with disappointment to a BBC news story that claimed Pentecostal pastors were advising patients with HIV to rely on prayer instead of medication.

Yet too many Pentecostal leaders hold even their own scholars at arms length and view them with suspicion.

As a former insider, I know that Pentecostal leaders reading this article are defensively bristling at what they know is true about their movement.

Far too much nervousness about powerful television and radio preachers infects well - intentioned and ethically sensitive Pentecostal leaders.

Honest and open dialogue between Pentecostal leaders and the movement's own intellectuals — with promises there will be no negative consequences — could help shake off some of the mutual suspicion and fear that haunts their relationships.

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.

When I meet with Pentecostal leaders, they're strategizing about where to plant a church.

Some Pentecostal leaders have lamented in recent decades that tongues - speaking has fallen off.

Yet because of the recognition that those who are filled with the Holy Spirit are empowered to testify about their experience of the Spirit, official Pentecostal leaders often view the involvement of Pentecostal scholars and theologians in the ecumenical arena as a legitimate form of witness.

The second charge, leveled by Pentecostal leaders in the Southeast, concerned the doctrine of sanctification.

(The Pentecostals leaders in Brazil are concerned and speak out about Neo-Pentecostalism and its dangers, and I will write more on this again.)

From early Pentecostal leader Charles Parham to Aimee Semple McPherson to Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, the movement has been wracked by charges of misconduct, many of which have been substantiated by investigators.

Not exact matches

Church leaders of various churches, including Pentecostals and Roman Catholics found that they and their congregations were significantly re-enthused through connection with the Toronto Church.

He's watched Southern Baptist deacons flip burgers while Pentecostal worship leaders helped raise money.

The leaders of the revival charged that the Pentecostal denominations had sold out.

Mainstream churches and educational institutions have had in the past a disproportionate share of leaders who were reared in Holiness and Pentecostal contexts but whose theological development led them into other ecclesiastical fields of service.

Editor's note: Bishop - elect O.C. Allen III is senior pastor of The Vision Church of Atlanta, and founder of The United Progressive Pentecostal Church Fellowship, an alliance of faith leaders and churches.

One of the most creative forces, however, in building bridges between classical Pentecostals and charismatics has been historian and church leader H. Vinson Synan of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

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Last June, pro-Russian separatists raided a Pentecostal church service in eastern Ukraine and kidnapped four Christian leaders.

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Leaders of Pentecostal and charismatic churches in the UK paid tribute to world - renowned preacher and... More

And now, sadly, it seems many of our charismatic / Pentecostal media outlets and leaders are telling us the same thing.

Leaders of Pentecostal and charismatic churches in the UK paid tribute to world - renowned preacher and author Myles Munroe ahead of his funeral, which was held on 4th December.

If you'd like to see a key leader in the Assemblies of God explain Pentecostalism and tongues (the Assemblies of God are Pentecostal but generally not charismatic), watch this interview I did for The Exchange:

To be sure, those involved usually have represented only themselves, since Pentecostal denominational leaders generally have not endorsed formal participation in ecumenical dialogue, given the movement's historic alliances with fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism rather than mainline Protestantism.

The church leaders were influenced by the United Pentecostal denomination.

Despite Pope Francis's unprecedented visit to a Pentecostal church and apology for past treatment of Pentecostals by Catholics, many Italian evangelical leaders remain concerned about how evangelicals in the United States (and other nations) are cozying up to the popular pontiff.

Thousands of people are paying tribute this week to prominent Pentecostal church leader Bishop Sidney Alexander Dunn.

We do not think of the Pentecostals as leaders in the field of theology.

Pentecostals were among the first to grant women freedom to preach and to serve as leaders, but they were conflicted as to how much freedom should be allowed.

Deeply embedded within the Pentecostal movement's ethos is a cult of personality; charismatic leaders are put on pedestals above accountability and are often virtually worshiped by many of their followers.

What the Protestant Pentecostals have been saying for a long time is now occurring among Catholic charismatics; in the words of one of their national leaders: «I am involved because I believe that God has touched me and that I have responsibilities as a result of that touch and call.»

Too many Pentecostal organizations lack any structure for safe criticism of dysfunctional behavior, aberrant teaching or abusive practices on the part of leaders and powerful ministers.

Peter's mother was a leader in a longstanding Pentecostal church in Ghana.

Pentecostals also hold that they are God's chosen people led by charismatic leaders with divine authority.

Official candidates of Pentecostal churches are typically one or more of the following: men who have achieved prominence in the church as itinerant evangelists, singers, or media presenters; sons and sons - in - law of head pastors; and Pentecostal businessmen who reach accords with their ecclesiastical leaders.

Historic churches and individual historic leaders must adapt to the new reality of the religious field in Latin America: a market situation in which institutional loyalties are precarious, middle - class denominationalism is in decline and the Protestant community is overwhelmingly Pentecostal.

As a leader for an outreach ministry program for his home church, El - Shaddai Pentecostal Church of Christ, he rallies members of his local chapter of Tennessee School Nutrition Association (TSNA) and other industry associates to prepare care packages for 200 homeless people in Memphis.

Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Oyo State Chapter, Bishop Taiwo Adelakun, who spoke on behalf of the Christian leaders, told the Vice President that the Federal Government owed Nigerians explanations on how it was handling some of the challenges confronting the country.

The Ninth Anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks will be marked in New York by elected officials, Pentecostals and other religious leaders joining in prayer.

He is a beloved community leader and minister at a local Pentecostal church, and his standing among his constituents is reflected by the district's Senate primary results for the last few years.

Golden's bill, which will be submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, is co-sponsored by Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous of Binghamton and Bronx Democrat Ruben Diaz Sr., a Pentecostal minister who has been the chamber's most vocal opponent of same - sex marriage.