Watch it all and note carefully the man who says Christianity is not a religion but is instead something else.
Watch it all and note carefully the man who says Christianity is not a religion but is instead something else.
“They call it ‘spiritual warfare'” Martin Fletcher opens with ominous inflection, as if describing some new, strange phenomenon; later he says a man “has become a Pentecostalist.”
If an NBC reporter mangled the basics of economic theory in a story on the Federal Reserve (“they call it ‘strict monetarism”” and “Bernanke has become a fiscalist”), they’d be soundly chastized . . . except someone would catch it before airtime.
Fer Pete’s sake, i’m a mainline Prot educated in a wanna-be-Chicago seminary, and i knew about ‘spiritual warfare’ as common coin in prayer ministry lingo twenty plus years ago. This was just plain embarrassing for NBC.
I know I risk being “attacked” but as I watched, they mentioned at least two people who left the Church to join one of these Pentecostalist groups. When I was in South America, the Pentecostalists were the greatest threat to the Churches (and I am talking about the EVANGELICAL CHURCHES, not the Catholic or “mainline” groups.) The Church can offer salvation, and the promise of eventual rewards by our Lord. These groups who work mainly among the poorer classes (and whose “pastors” often drive fancy cars) promise rewards in the “here and now.”
It makes perfect sense to say that someone left the Church to become a “Pentecostalist.” These are not your run of the mill Assembly of God types. These groups steal sheep from the Church and then, often take advantage of them.
#2 if the some one live the liberal like TEC, Anglican church of Southern Africa to became a PENTECOSTALIST, is doing some thing right.