Tough As Nails: The Power of the Ex-Pentecostal
I keep thinking about how tough one has to be to escape from Pentecostalism, renounce all the experience and go through the long grueling process of recovery. Hard experience tends to harden us. When one looks at great achievers – those that go beyond a large percentage of the population – say 80-90% - and make a large wave in the larger scheme of things. I am not speaking of greatness like a Mozart, Chopin,
We come out of this process as very capable people – once we are fully healed – and we are as tough as nails. This gives us the impetus required of many large endeavors: perseverance, patience, hard work, emotional toughness, and pure strength. We become virtually unstoppable when we commit fully to a cause because we have that inner core of steel – we have been through the fire and survived.
Does anyone feel the same way? Does anyone feel that since they are out and fully recovered that they are now tough as nails? Do you feel that you are several times tougher than about 80% of the population? Remember that most people who accomplish a lot usually have had a hard life – or an element of their lives that has toughened them to the point where the pain of accomplishment is nothing for them; they push forward with unstoppable force to the thing they are pushing for.
I think that this element of toughness can provide many of us with hope. It can give the struggling recently emancipated Ex-Pentecostal something to look forward to when he thinks the task is too big. It is worth it. You will come out on the other side TOUGH AS NAILS.
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After meeting my wife I left the Catholic church to follow her route as a Pentecostal. After the newness wore off I started to become more aware of what was happening around me. It was an environment of fear and control. The more I watched the worse it got. I started to independently (because this is frowned upon in this cult) study the word and it all led me back to the Catholic church. My wife was born and brainwashed into this cult and her parents control her by withholding their acceptance of her unless she does their will. This is really odd and scary to me because she is a grown, professional woman in her fifties and she reverts to a five year old the moment she's in her parents company. I can point out the manipulation and falsities in their cult, but they just attack personally and tell me they "know in their spirit" that it's true; even when it contradicts the bible. It's a very scary world filled with extremely scary rituals and borderline demonic activity. I say that because their spasms and fake tongues is 180 degrees out from biblical gifts of The Spirit. Whenever you see activity like that in the bible the demonic spirits are cast out... look it up! I have observed that these cults prey upon the less educated and those of lower income status. Too many of these folks seem to lack the ability to perform cognitive thought and solely rely on they emotional high. They are also controlled (hypnotized) by the music that is blasted at them. I had to wear earplugs when I attended their "service." The brainwashing and control in this cult is really scary if you stop and think about it. The sheep being led to the slaughter. The "tongues" they love so much sound more like incantations and demonic speak; their incoherent babbling is comical and usually led by the women who 100% control these cults even though they use a male to claim as the "head of the house." What is sad is that someone truly seeking peace enters one of these services they run out of fear because of the ridiculous events happening and someone could be lost for the kingdom because of this. If you are associated with one of these cults I highly urge you to RUN as fast and far as you can from it! Read the church fathers and the bible and you will find a true religion that doesn't rely on sensationalism and emotionalism. Their a Protestant faiths as well as the Catholic faith that adhere to biblical truths. Know why you're doing what you're doing or you shouldn't be doing it.
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