[ConservativeMind]

Let's pause for a moment to speak in a tongue:

LA LA HUH LA LA HOO LA LA LA VE LA!

[Onelifetogive]

But evangelical, Pentecostal and other charismatic churches are drawing an increasing number of worshippers away from their traditional choices.

It's not just a US thing. I went to Honduras this summer to build an Assembly of God church building. Over 100 new Assembly of God churches have been planted in Honduras in the past couple of years.

[Quix]

All churches . . . which . . .

AS SCRIPTURE NOTES

"have a form of Godliness but deny the power thereof"

will be doing one or both of 2 things . . .

1. Withering into increased insignificance
2. Becoming part of the Globalist lowest commondenominator one size fits all . . . religion.

Yes, ALL KINDS of congregations with all kinds of doctrines have flaws and excesses--Pentecostal/Charismatic churches are no different on that score. And, given often enough various emotionally toned dramatic features of that sub-culture, flaws stick out all the more.

NEVERTHELESS, GOD DOES MOVE IN MIGHT AND POWER in and through such clusters of earnest believers . . . on average . . . FAR MORE than in other types of clusters of believers--something about FAITH AND EXPECTANCY probably plays a significant fact on that score.

And, mockers shall pay dearly for their mocking . . . increasingly . . . until the sorts of penalties dished out to the mockers of Moses becomes the norm in our era. I don't know when such penalties will start--but it will be in our lifetime and probably sooner than later.

There's plenty of warning in Scripture . . . though mockers usually pay not attention or have their own proof texts to jutify their mocking of those who believe diferently on the nonessentials.

[Macoraba]

"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?"


They probably got taken in with a sack of groceries or a bag of clothes.


Rather sad that they would forsake their Mother - the Blessed Virgin Mary!

[lightman]

"I feel something special in this church," said Yax, a dental assistant born in Guatemala who, like many people interviewed for this story, said Catholicism in America lacks the appeal it once held in their home country. "In this church you feel Jesus is very close to you. You feel something in your heart, you feel something is weird.

Substituting salvation by "feeling" for justification by faith. What happens when the mood magic ends?

[185JHP]

"El Shaddai, El Shaddai, El Elyon Na Adonai. We will praise and lift You high, El Shaddai!"

[Unam Sanctam]

I wonder if like European and American Mainline Protestants, these new Hispanic Protestants' progeny will no longer feel the emotion that their ancestors originally sought in the Protestant churches and drift away from faith altogether. I think a sound catechesis in the well developed doctrine of the Catholic faith and the calm partaking of the Sacraments, prayer and devotions should lead to a faith with more staying power, although the Catholic Church in recent years has not valued its doctrine, sacraments or traditions enough to pass it on to future generations. So it's a conundrum...

[BnBlFlag]

This has been going on in Houston for years. Latinos and Pentecostalism fit together like a hand in gloves. (No, not like OJ's gloves).

[JockoManning]

Interesting. Thank you, Coleus for posting this thread.

jm

[napscoordinator]

This is awful news.

[redgolum]

My boss (from Brazil, and 3rd generation Baptist) talks about this. He said that many people in Brazil and disillusioned with the Roman Catholic Church because the perception is that it is the religion of the "rich". So many are turning to the Assembly of God type folks.

Part of it is also there are not that many priests there. If you live in a smaller city or village, you will not have a priest every Sunday. But the new churches have pastors there all the time.