April 22, 2006
100 years later, Azusa Street Revival still reverberates
Joe Ellis/The Clarion-Ledger
Jessica Robison pours out her emotions during Sunday service at Parkway Pentecostal Church in Madison.
The title calls Pentecostalism a religion, but it's more than than. It's a movement that has spread across all denominations.
There are plenty of charismatic Catholics, as as the quoted bishop says, these charismatic Christians are a blessing to all the churchers.
Not in mine.....
Is this really news? Seems like it's more suited for the Religion topic.
From sac bee:
Yearbook: Catholic, Mormon and Pentecostal churches grow fastest
The Associated Press
Last Updated 11:00 am PDT Tuesday, April 18, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - The Assemblies of God, the Mormon church and the Roman Catholic Church were the fastest-growing major denominations in the United States last year, according to the just-released 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.
The Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal church, grew 1.81 percent to just under 2.8 million members. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints increased 1.74 percent to nearly 6 million people. And the Catholic Church, by the far the largest denomination in the United States, grew .83 percent to 67.8 million parishioners.
Only three mainline Protestant churches remain among the 10 biggest denominations in the country. The United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., stayed in the top 10 despite experiencing declines in membership last year.
The Methodists ranked third, with about 8.2 million members. The Evangelical Lutherans Ranked seventh, with nearly 4.9 million people. And the Presbyterians ranked ninth with just under 3.2 million congregants.
The Southern Baptist Convention remains the largest U.S. Protestant group, with 16.3 million members. It is the second-largest denomination in the country, behind the Catholic Church.
The yearbook has been published for 89 years by the National Council of Churches, which represents 35 mainline Protestant, Episcopalian and Orthodox Christian groups.
In between our former church and our current one, we attended a Pentacostal church for about three years. When I started to become more involved with it, I found too many weirdnesses, such that I couldn't, in good conscience, become involved in the church. Too much looking to "signs and wonders," so much so that even people's facial ticks were considered the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
I don't speak in tongues (my "private prayer language" is English), but it's fairly evident that there is greater support in scripture for the validity of tongues than not. The non-tongues denominations believe it has "ceased," but they base that upon a half a verse in I Corinthians.
When asked to comment they babbled incomprehensibly.
Is this the one where the women don't cut their hair and don't ever wear pants?
April 22, 2006
100 years later, Azusa Street Revival still reverberates
Joe Ellis/The Clarion-Ledger
Jessica Robison pours out her emotions during Sunday service at Parkway Pentecostal Church in Madison.
The only unknown tongue I want is Latin!
If it's not Latin it's not rite!