[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

Title:Discussions from a Christian Perspective
Notice:Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome!
Moderator:CSC32::J_CHRISTIE
Created:Mon Sep 17 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1362
Total number of notes:61362

374.0. "United Pentecostal Church" by POBOX::FOILES () Thu Dec 26 1991 17:40

    I would like to hear any comments on the United Pentecostal Church or
    any other Oneness Pentecostal organizations.
    
    Thanks,
    Neil
    
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
374.1CSC32::J_CHRISTIEPeace: the Final FrontierThu Dec 26 1991 18:3815
I used to attend a church in Phoenix which was affiliated with the United
Pentecostal Church.  It met in a school cafetorium on Sunday evenings.  The
people were very friendly and cordial.  The pastor could not live on the
support of the church alone.  As I recall, he supported himself primarily
through some sort of sales job.

The services had an air of spontaneity I've encountered nowhere else.
There was a lot of congregational praising and praying "in tongues,"
some of which was highly emotionally charged.

Things were never still for very long.  In fact, a vivid memory is one
of the piano playing through everything, including the sermon.

Peace,
Richard
374.2CSC32::J_CHRISTIEPeace: the Final FrontierThu Dec 26 1991 18:447
    Also, see 20.4
    
    It describes a "Holiness" church.  Forgive me, but I don't know the
    formal difference between "Holiness" and "Pentecostal," if any exist.
    
    Peace,
    Richard
374.3Several facts62465::JACKSONThe Word became fleshFri Dec 27 1991 09:4612
I just read something somewhere about the Oneness Church.  I
don't remember where.

Anyway, the Oneness Church would be classified by Dr. Walter
Martin (of the Bible Answer Man) as a cult.  It denies the
Trinity and baptizes in the name of Jesus alone.  Baptism
(in a Oneness Church, I believe) is a requirement for
salvation.  There are more vague thoughts going around in
my mind, but it's probably safer just to share what I'm sure
I remember.

Collis
374.4More Data Please!!POBOX::FOILESFri Dec 27 1991 13:048
    Resources would be sincerely appreciated, such as the document your
    refer to in 374.3.
    
    Also, please see the Christian notesfile on GOLF::CHRISTIAN, topic
    1176.
    
    Thanks, 
    Neil