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I made these comments on the previous post on the Pentecostal church service notes. I might have been angry as one might gather from these notes:
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I would like to make note of a few things in here. There are constant attempts to excite the crowd into frenzy both before and during preaching. The music was designed to get the people running and jumping. The minute the pastor took the pulpit, he got someone to testify to make the crowd go wild again. Stories of healings are designed to get the crowd shouting and running in frenzy. “The Lord does great things!” Anything is used for excitement – really do we need to hear of bags stolen, and then someone finds them in a trash can???!!! Praise the Lord for that!
Also, notice many references to the “Pastor.” They speak of him like a God. Also, there is much praise for the pastor’s family – in this case the Assistant Pastor. Both the pastor and the evangelist praise the assistant pastor. I found this a bit strange.
And as for the altar worker’s seminar? Maybe they can send them to a hypnosis school since speaking in tongues comes under self-hypnosis. Help the victim lose their mind, so they start to tremble, lose all sense of time and space, fall on the floor and talk in tongues.
He praised people for working long hours at the church. Hello? These people give 10% in cold cash, come to church for over 2 hours on Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday mid-week. In addition, there are meetings, prayer meetings, seminars, choir practice, and classes. Top all this off when one has to spend hours taking baths, getting ready for church, driving carloads of kids to church. And they have the audacity to make people work long hours for the church????!!!! Who are these people!!???
As far as the tent revival idea, have not these people figured out that the public thinks tent revival = crazy rednecks???? Do they wish to damage their reputation even further? Also, how do you think that these people can fill up a local convention center? This was tried at the Cow Palace in San Francisco a few years back. They spent $20,000 renting it. It was an embarrassment. It was called Bay Fire. When will these people learn that the days of revival are over? People are SICK of that crap. It is OLD and STUPID. All this stuff about “making noise” for revival is a thing of the past. People figured out what they were up to.
Of course, every few months, to keep things exciting, there has to be some “new” idea to keep the people interested in the circus. In this case, it is Kid’s Church. Wow! We can build a church just for the kids! We can screw over another generation of youth and make them emotional wrecks by the time they are teenagers! Let’s destroy their lives early! But, are they cute?!! Mommies and daddies can be so proud of their smiley kids up front talking in tongues and “praying each other through,” and emotionally wounding them for life. Yeah, we can bring our kids to heaven too!!! Do it for the kids! Even if you are a wreck in your personal life, give your life to the church for the children’s sake! We can screw you over and your kids too!
Oh, and did you hear about “Prayer and Fast Day?” All those fat Pentecostals fasting for three days on only water???!!! Now, is that healthy or what? Those teenagers doing this “fast” will mess up their metabolism and never recover. They will have weight problems for the rest of their days. Also, how many will pass out and vomit from lack of eating? Will this be in testimony service? “Brother, I vomited my guts, but praise God, I made it through three days without any foods!” I think that drinking a 12-pack of beer is healthier than this type of religious nonsense.
Study the part about the guy interrupting the song and making a $1,000 pledge to the Kid’s Church. Does it look like he was a plant? Could someone have put him up to this? And to intimidate people, asking for pledges on the spot for $1,000 and making people come forward and raising their hands for this is an abomination. Who will spend this money? How much you want to bet that this Kid’s Church is NEVER built, but somehow there will be new furniture and new cars in a few leaders’ parking lots??? Think of the children whose parents gave $1,000. Will they go without toys or school clothes “for the work of the Lord?” Will they have to work longer hours to get themselves through college because Mommy and Daddy could not put away money for their college fund? Or better yet, did they raid little Johnny’s college fund to “give to Jesus?” Notice that after the pledges, the crowd cheers again.
What is all this “final push and final thrust” before the rapture? “We take 10% already and you are about to go bankrupt, so we will milk you all we can until you are dead!”
Do you remember how people stand when a visiting preacher is introduced? Well, do they worship this guy? Who is he who comes in the name of the lord to take thy money?
The preacher said that he wanted a revival among backsliders. Does he think that we really want to come back? We could just as well purchase a bullwhip and beat our own selves on the back for free! We could also go jump off a cliff – we might survive the fall.
His text is about Jarius and the Woman with the issue of blood. Hello??? This is not about backsliders! He mentions that 24 people got the Holy Ghost last week, and in the next sentence, mentions that people will spend money one way or another and that they should spend it on God. Hello???!!!! This is not making any sense!! What does spending money have to do with this sermon? Oh yeah, we all know.... He then asks how many Kid’s Churches we could build with $50 million. Where in he heck did that come from??? Can this guy get his mind off money for one minute? Later on, he mentions money again, strangely.
Okay, then he asks all those without the Holy Ghost to raise their hands. What kind of low-class, rude question is this??? “Uh, preacher, I am a child of Satan, yes I am!” “Help me talk in the ‘Mo siah da da da high’ dialect, will ya?”
He then says again that he wants to “stir you up about backsliders.” Well, if you read the sermon notes, the sermon had nothing to do with backsliders. Is the guy a lunatic? Can he prepare a decent speech, or is he just making it up as he goes? Discipline anyone? He says he “wants to bring the prodigals home,” but then gives the story about the woman with the issue of blood. See what I mean about taking things out of context and playing the Bible like Tarot Cards????
Does the Bible say that the disease was gone but the scars remained until Jesus spoke? Did Jarius tell Jesus “Just Hurry!” How can the preacher say that Jarius paid the weepers before the girl died? Does he have proof and sources???? Where does he get this story about Jarius talking in the corner with “Sister Jarius????” Where did that come from??? Does the Bible say Jarius told “sister Jarius” about the woman with the issue of blood?? Is he making this all up as he goes???? I did not check out the story yet, but it sounds like a pile of BS.
Then in the middle of nowhere, he talks about someone dropping $200 in an offering plate and then getting a job offer the next day. Again, where did that come from? And, why is this guy obsessed with talking about money?
Are there documented cases of ANYONE jumping out of a wheelchair legitimately? Why is this necessary for “apostolic revival?”
Does anyone know if Hepatitis B is actually incurable and terminal? I want to know this one for sure. Why did he tell the devil “Your gonna regret this?” when in fact it was a stupid doctor? The devil is innocent here. Poor Satan. I wonder if he really has that letter of healing. Something smells funny about this whole story. Maybe some of you in nursing can help out with this one.
Of course, the crowd goes wild and there are cheers and people go nuts at the healing in this story. Stories for cheers?
Then he asks for those with pain in their bodies to get in the aisles. It is funny that he says if they do not come out into the aisle, they WILL NOT get healed. This was a very strange thing to say. Notice that he says that someone with “lumps” will get healed. Well, did not the guy with the testimony have this same story with six tumors? He is slipping in his memory. Furthermore, how many lumps are terminal and how many are removable with surgery? I bet nobody asked him that one. I bet all these tumor “healings” was just the doctors cutting them out. Anyone smell suspicion here too?
Of course, he curses the sickness and rebukes it. People talk in tongues. Those with the pain gone are to raise their hands. Big deal. Who cares? Also, he asks for the person with the tumor to come up and some dumb woman comes up who has a hernia. No one took much notice of this strange thing. But the crowd cheers!!!!
Notice the dialect of tongues. Mo siah, Mo high, and da da da la la. You also hear the universal tongue-talkers word “sandah” There are variations like sahndae, shahdae, etc.
I wonder what heavenly word this is. For all I know it might be voodoo for “Praise Satan!”
These notes have a lot of potential for a good study.
JP Istre
