Is any body  a Pentecostal?
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I am, but no, I do not go to that church.... Is more than 15 hours away...
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UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (UPCI)
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Yup. I am one of them!!!!\n\nJust kidding. Don't belive in SPIRIT etc., our body gets completly destroyed soon after we die. That's it.
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I'm not certain but perhaps it's because Pentocostals are so overly charismatic that they have taken the whole spiritual gifts thing and have taken it way out of context. (i.e. snakes, tongues, etc.) They have twisted and distorted the Word of God to fit their own needs and purposes and have caused great confusion within the Body of Christ.
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No. \nSource 1:\n    * 1 Cor. 12:7-11, "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."\n\n    * 1 Cor. 12:29-30, "Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"\n\nNot all speak in tongues because God doesn't give the gift to everyone.  Speaking in tongues is not THE sign of salvation, but A sign.  If anything, the fruit of the indwelling Spirit of God is listed in Gal. 5:22-23 is the sign of salvation.  \n\n    "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" (Gal. 5:22-23).\n\nSource 2: Was there a point in time when you surrendered your life to Christ? Was there a moment of brokenness when you recognized that you are indeed ungodly and cannot become righteous by your deeds? Have you invited Jesus into your heart and made Him Lord? Has there been a change so that you are no longer living for the world, but living for Christ. Walking in obedience out of love for God is evidence of salvation. Speaking in tongues is not.
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I don't know why it is called apostolic, but I understand it is a Protestant Pentecostal group.  I think they believe that speaking in unknown tongues is the sign that someone has been touched by God.  My experience of pentecostals in Protestant and Catholic groups has left be completely dazed.  I have seen it, I do not understand it.  I believe it must be experienced to be understood.
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I go to Pentecostal church now. So, it's more like a non- denominational service, only we have the prayer team, before the shermon. So if anyone need prayer or encouragement, they can go to the front and pray with the prayer's counselor. They also have altar call, for people that want to receive Jesus. \nI believe that when we sing and pray, it's for the glory of God. We sing from the heart and dance from the heart (Just like David). \nI grew up in Lutheran church. No one 'dare' to raise their hand or even move their finger, and (sorry) some funeral service are more lively than they are. It's like people in the church said to God "Bless me if you can" ... But that's just my church, I know that not all Lutheran church are like that.
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I'm assuming you're not including the Jehovah's Witnessess and Mormons. \n\nThe United Pentecostal church is one such group - they're modalists, and believe that God merely appears in different forms, as the Father in the Old Testament, as Jesus in the Gospels, and as the Holy Spirit post-Pentecost. For them, God is not actually 3 persons.\n\nI know there are other groups, but I can't think of their names right now.
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my cousin was and tried to convert me while his family lived in my home. While I was very tolerant of his ways he was not the same and tried to give my kids a hard time about some music that they were listening to. Crazy stuff, he had a bad drug addiction and eventually moved back to his sad life in MS and committed suicide. That is my only experience with pentecostals. Sorry....The one thing I can say is he knew the Bible forward and backwards and could quote just about anything from it, but if you don't live it it won't help you.
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NO\n\nIt was the day of Pentecost 33 C.E. Weeks earlier, Jews and proselytes from at least 15 regions of the far-flung Roman Empire and beyond had packed Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. On that day, thousands of them heard—not in confusion, as those at ancient Babel did, but with understanding—ordinary people filled with holy spirit proclaim the good news in numerous languages spoken in the empire. \n\nJesus’ disciples could probably speak common Greek, the popular language of the day. They also used Hebrew, the language spoken at the temple. However, on that Pentecost day, they “astonished” their diverse audience by speaking in the native languages of those people. The hearts of the listeners were touched by the vital truths that they heard in their mother tongue.\n\nAmong those ‘speaking in tongues’ today are Pentecostals and Baptists, also Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians. Jesus said that the holy spirit would ‘guide his disciples into all the truth.’ (John 16:13) Do the members of each of these religions believe that the others who also “speak in tongues” have been guided into “all the truth”? How could that be, since they are not all in agreement? What spirit is making it possible for them to “speak in tongues”?\nIn the first century, when Christians ‘spoke in tongues,’ what they said had meaning to people who knew those languages. (Acts 2:4, 8) Today, is it not true that ‘speaking in tongues’ usually involves an ecstatic outburst of unintelligible sounds?\n\nIn the first century, the Bible shows, congregations were to limit the ‘speaking in tongues’ to two or three persons who might do that at any given meeting; they were to do it “each in turn,” and if there was no interpreter present they were to keep silent. (1 Cor. 14:27, 28, RS) Is that what is being done today?\n\nThe Bible does indicate how long the ‘gift of tongues’ would be a part of Christian experience. According to the record, this gift and the other gifts of the spirit were always conveyed to persons by the laying on of hands of the apostles of Jesus Christ or in their presence. Thus, after their death and when the individuals who in that way had received the gifts died, the miraculous gifts resulting from the operation of God’s spirit must have come to their end. Such a view agrees with the purpose of those gifts as stated at Hebrews 2:2-4.
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yes, i have. a lot. so if i listed all the circumstances we'd be here a while. so i'll give you the situation with a good friend of mine. well, my best friend really. she's dead now (this past march...semi collided with her friend's car). when she speaks in tongues all the time i don't know WHAT she's saying obviously. i've heard that people who speak in tongues know what the subject is that they're talking about but not what they're saying. it's a spirit to God thing that they're not fully aware of. when my friend spoke in tongues the time that stands out the most was while i was trying to do something that was right and it was VERY hard for me. so she was praying for me in the "spirit language" as tongues is also called.
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Absolutely. Anyone can belong to a fundamental new testament church. God's view is the same of us all - we're all flawed but he loves us more deeply than my words could ever say.
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Yes. If you read Acts 2:1-4, on the Day of pentecost in the upper room there the 12 apostles, Mary the mother of Jesus and other women were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues as the spirit gave the utterance. If you read acts 2:39 you'll see that the Holy Ghost mentioned in Acts 2:38 is a promise from God. In Acts 10:46 Peter was preaching to Cornelius and his family, while Peter was preaching Cornelius and his family was filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues.\nBack in the summer of 1998, in Fayetteville,NC at the First United Pentecostal Church I received the precious gift of the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues. Yes, speaking in tongues is a sign that a person does have the Holy Ghost.   That promise is still available today.
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Being pentecostal myself I dont believe in wearing makeup but all of the pentecostal doctrine is going to be up to the new convert coming into the church. If God put these things on your heart not to do then you dont do them. It is very simple. In other words it is up to the person whether or not to wear makeup.
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Sure. It is the day Christians call Pentecost and it is at the height of a major Jewish Festival so Jerusalem is crowded with people from many different lands. The disciples have just experienced an incredible event. The holy spirit has decended on the disciples and they have been empowered to speak in any language needed to be understood on the streets of Jerusalem.\n\nThe disciples are so excited that they begin to testify to the power of God and to identify Jesus as the Messiah. The crowd, even though it is early morning thinks the disciples are drunk.\n\nPeter, points to the old testament prophet Joel and explains to the crowd that what they are seeing is what has been prophesied in the Hebrew scriptures. The essential element for most Christians is not the ability to speak in languages or the ability to prophesy, but the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as a means of connecting ordinary people to the mind and presence of God. It's not an especially hard passage to understand, but hundreds of essays and interpretations have been written about it because it speaks of things that, though natural, are not experienced by everyone. They require faith and really can't be experienced without faith.
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I don't know. I have met Pentecostals I like and Pentecostals I don't like, just like with other Christian churches. I have heard people ridicule them as "holy rollers" so maybe they are afraid because all of the movements.
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Pentecostal worship runs the gambit from conservative and quiet to lunacy - as in the Brownsville Assembly of God's "revival" where people clucked like chickens and barked like dogs while having "holy seizures" and uncontrollable laughter.\n\nPeople are attracted to it because it isn't dull and cold and boring like traditional liturgy has become in so many churches. It's FUN to clap and dance and laugh and stuff. People in our Ex-Charismatic support group have described Pentecostal worship as RELIGIOUS ADDICTION.\n\nBut the baggage that comes with it is every bit as damaging as any false religion. When I was in it, I remember being taught that in order to qualify for Holy Spirit baptism, you had to get rid of all the sin in your life and be a perfectly clean person, inside and out, because "the Spirit won't fill an unclean vessel."\n\nBut that begs the question, what do I need Spirit baptism for, if it's possible for me to acheive such a state of holiness WITHOUT it? Just in order to get it?\n\nThat is exactly the OPPOSITE of the Christian gospel, which tells us that we CANNOT ever measure up or be holy enough on our own to "earn" God's favor or acceptance. Pentecostal legalism - even in the more modern churches - remains a major issue. There are many other theological issues in Pentecostalism that defy the grace and sovereignty of the God they claim to love - issues which, if accepted without examination, threaten to turn the Christian gospel inside out. Beware!