Hi Emron
"All that was a long time ago. I did my own Bible studies, as you all obviously have, and discovered the errors and out of context quotes that the positive confession doctrine and "God wants us all to be rich" are based on, but I cannot deny my own experiences.  The gifts that I observed in operation and benefited from were real. I still pray in tongues. The way God introduced me to it was personal and obviously intended for me to understand that it was important for my life."

I totally understand and get what you said there :)    Have you run into the likes of Keith Moore & Monica Dennington, a few of us have down loaded many of there talks and watch it regularly on a big screen, though like you I'm not sure about, as you describe the " positive confession doctrine and "God wants us all to be rich" stuff he seems to speak on, , how did you discern thee differences in this??  

 (although he does use scripture to back this up and seems to put things in a better grounded scriptural way then some of the other extreme teaching out there),  He did some brilliant talks on marriage, like a Dr Phil but with scripture to back up what he says *grin*.  Enjoy looking around, we left our last big church (mentioned on this site ) because of the corruption, & regulation permeating the place, as Andrew Strom on his site he writes about the Monster becoming the church and having a life in itself,  

It's been an interesting walk since then, a lot re-evaluation and reassessing of old thoughts an interesting time.

Take care

Im_Out

"Revival Centres the exclusive brethren of the Pentecostal world"

My first thought on hearing this in church was "where do you people get this rubbish?" One of my dearest friends still buys into this and thinks because she sends money to the coat waver, that god will multiply it ten times. At the rate she is sending it, lets hope she's right.

There were so many things in a Pente church I just thought were the newest fad. Generational curses caused by ones family's involvement in masonry, get slain in the spirit or roll around the floor laughing, cant have anything in the house that has even an appearance of evil lest it draw spirits etc, go up on the biggest hill in town where "the witches meet" and pray away their bad influence over the city,  burn your worldly cd's blah blah blah. Apparently all this was supposed to make one holier. Seemed like a "new age" christianity to me, largely based on fear and buying all this rubbish to comform with the group. Being the perennial brat I am, I just couldn't see what any of this had to do with Jesus. At a bible study in my home they were carrying on about the satanic cults in town and I asked "why are you people so afraid of these people when Christ has won the victory?" Not one person could answer me. It was like they fed off each others zeal and fear. I found it rather odd.

I noticed though how most of these holy people still looked at those christians having a smoke outside the church like they were dirt. When the assistant pastor's marriage broke up, how the 25 years of dedication that family had given to the church turned to nothing in the resultant finger pointing and side taking. Humans can be so disappointing.