{"id":19523,"date":"2010-05-03T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/don_finto_godfather_of_local_charismatic_movement_still_spirited_at_80\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:22:46","slug":"don_finto_godfather_of_local_charismatic_movement_still_spirited_at_80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19523","title":{"rendered":"Don Finto, godfather of local charismatic movement, still spirited at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1969, Don Finto went looking for the Holy Ghost.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the Church of Christ, Finto believed in God the Father Almighty, and he learned to trust in Jesus. But for the most part, he felt the Holy Ghost was missing from his life \u201d\u201d especially when it came to speaking in tongues, a practice of praying in unknown languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt like I was stuck in a box,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Finto, then 39, decided to give the Holy Spirit a try. The former missionary-turned-David Lipscomb University-professor knelt and prayed, asking to be baptized in the Spirit, an experience relatively unknown outside of Pentecostal circles.<\/p>\n<p>When he stood up, Finto says, his life had changed forever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20100503\/NEWS06\/5030335\/1023\/NEWS01\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1969, Don Finto went looking for the Holy Ghost. Growing up in the Church of Christ, Finto believed in God the Father Almighty, and he learned to trust in Jesus. But for the most part, he felt the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19523\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}