hello are there any pentecostals?
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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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yes there were. before and after. the old testament referred to them as cushites(ethiopia was known as cush). in the new testament phillip teaches and baptises an ethiopian. there were a lot of trade routes by land and sea and a lot of multi-cultural contact. at the pentacost where the holy spirit was given, there were people present from all over the known world(acts).
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Yes, I attend every Sunday, Lord willing! And, I am Christian, attend An (AME) African Methodist Episcopal Church. I will be on my way there shortly. The doors open at 10A.M. and everyone is welcome.  Have a great day, and God bless
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I belive my religion is right ..PENTECOSTAL... because all that we belive is in the bible and it is all true I belive that there is 1 GOD  and you have to be baptized in his name Acts 2:38 and recieve the gift of the Holy Ghost.. thats what I think :)
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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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If you can't find one, start one yourself. Go to all the different Churches around you and see if you can find others that are interested.
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I certainly hope there is! You could check with the Churches in that area, would be a good place to start.
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I am a believer!! I got saved about a year ago.  I attend a Pentecostal Church and we are in revial this week.  It is amazing.  I have seen people healed and Tuesday night there was a young girl that had demon of pride in her & they casted it out!!\nI also believe in speaking in toung and rebuking the devil.\nThanks for the question..\n\nThe guy running the revial this week in named Ray Praff from Tennennsee -- He knows the word of God and acts under dircetion from him.
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That is a wide open question, can you be more specific.\n\nAs the question is now, I would say that there are a number of deliverance ministries around.\n\nThere are some for homosexuals, physical healing, mental healing, ect...\n\nI think that most spirit lead ministries have some form of deliverance involved in it, they just don't consider it as such, or do not proclaim it as such.
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There are different denominations that are Pentecostal.  There are some that have the word 'Pentecostal' in their name [i.e. Pentecostal Holiness Church] and others that are Pentecostal in practice [i.e. people use the gifts of the Holy Spirit in worship].  I go to the Assemblies of God church, and we are Pentecostal in worship.  Not saying either one is right or wrong, they're both very similar.  We don't have 'rules' like that.  I was saved and baptized in blue jeans.  I wear pants every week, and I talk to men.  I don't wear make up, but there are no church 'rules' about that.  Also, check if the rules are from the denomination itself, or just from stuffed shirts in the congregation.  God looks on the heart.  Those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.  Hope that helps.  God bless you.
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Here is a small segment of Pentecostal beliefs:\n \nPentecostals believe that one must be saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins and to be made acceptable to God. Being descended from Methodism and the Methodist Holiness Movement, Pentecostal soteriology is thoroughly Arminian rather than Calvinist, believing that the ability to believe in Jesus is a power of the human free will.\n\nThis is in fact one of the distinctives which seperates Pentecostal Traditions from those of the Second Wave Charismatic and Evangelical Churches which tend toward a calvinistic soteriology. One of the main points of division is the definition of eternal security which is thoroughly Calvinist in the later Evangelical denominations and follows the Arminian tract in Pentecostal churches and denominations. This is most clearly illustrated by the belief, held in Pentecostal groups, that crediting the charismatic gifts and expressions to demonic or carnal motives and spirits, qualifies as an unpardonable sin {Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit). In Charismatic and Evangelical churches this view is marginalized or replaced with the belief that refusing to convert to Christianity before death is the only unpardonable sin.\n\nYou can read this and more at the site below.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostal
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Wow - there are tens of thousands. Nobody could ever hope to get them all into one posting, it would take days to write.\n\nThe basic breakdown:\n\nANCIENT ECCLESIA:\n\n- Eastern Orthodox\n- Coptic Church\n- Catholic Church\n- Armenian Church\n\nVIA MEDIA:\n- Anglican/Episcopal Church\n\nPROTESTANT:\n- Lutheran\n- Methodist\n- Prebyterian\n- Quaker\n\nEVANGELICAL:\n- Baptist\n- Free churches\n\nCHARISMATIC:\n- Pentecostal\n\nOTHER:\n- Universalist unitarians\n- Mormons (LDS)\n- Jehovah's witnesses\n- Unitarian Universalists\n- Oneness Pentecostal\n- Seventh Day Adventists
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Pentecostals believe that you must be saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Saviour for the forgiveness of sins and to be made acceptable to God. Pentecostals believe in water baptism as an outward sign of conversion, and that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a distinct spiritual experience that all who have believed in Jesus should receive. Some Pentecostals believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is always accompanied initially by the outward evidence of speaking in tongues. This is a major difference between Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians who believe that a Christian who is baptized in the Holy Spirit may exhibit other physical signs instead of speaking in tongues. Pentecostals also believe that the Bible has the final authority in matters of faith.
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I'm not Pentecostal. I'm Catholic.\n\nBut I'm sitting here with a Pentecostal friend, and I'm going to turn it over to him. The following are his words, not mine:\n\nI was born into a Pentecostal family, so that's how I got into it. I like the freedom of worship in the Pentecostal church, and how the Holy Spirit is allowed to take control. Also, there is good music. I learned how to play guitar in the Pentecostal church just like Elvis did (my fave Pentecostal celebrity). I like it when people speak in tongues and get seized by the Spirit. It's a lot more free than other churches, and people are allowed to be more emotional. Why would anyone go to a church where everything is all quiet and boring? In our church, if you feel like shouting for joy, then go ahead and shout. It's all about freedom during worship.
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pentecostal churches is any christian church that preach the word of jesus christ in a glorified way. they mostly believe that for a person to be saved, he or she needs to have faith,be baptist and talk pray in tongues.\n1. how they differ from other churches is that, they all pray at the same time, they pray for each other, the sick, the problems of the country or continent concerned. this may sound strange to some one who is new from other churches, but every thing that is done by the pentencostal church is in the bible. talking in tongues is taken from the book of mathews to timotheus,wherby people were praying and suddenly started talking a strange language. only the blessed and the believers can speak this language. as its a way of communication to the lord, and the devil does not know that language,thus will not prevent the prayer from not being answered.\n\n2. how they contact their services is different from that of the ELCN CHURCH, ANGLICAN CHURCH,AND THE CATHORIC CHURCH,  in a \nway that each member of the church or a  visitor come forward during the service and explain his or her trouble in front of all the audiences, it does not matter what the problems are, then the audience take it from there as like in the  first paragraph.\n\nfurther more the pentecostal churches believe in different prayers\n1. worship prayers - which is assisted by a worship song before praying\n2.praising prayer- which is assisted by the clapping and crying, or what ever you want to do, thus there is also a thanksgiving song before all those.\n3. a forgiveness prayer- by which every one pour out their apologies to the lord in their own way.\n4. the service is conducted 7 days a week. there is a day for only women who are single,and another for married women, a day for the sinners(those who want to accerpt jesus christ, a day for the youths, a day for those who want to have a privacy with the pastors, a day for married/unmarried men, a day of the full time church service.\n5. women mostly have to cover their heads and wear long dresses or skirts, thus its said in the book of corintheas,\n6. unlike other chuches, a person need to be fully dedicated to the lord, whereby there should be no fornication, no smoking, no drinkind alcohol, and each church member need to contribute service to the church(be it cleaning the church, arranging curtains or decorating the church, playing music,advising memebrs of the particular groups,translator,etc.as long as those duties are fulfilled evey time of the week by the chosen person.\n\nin other churches, the pastor does all the praying and talking, unless by appointments where by a member need to preach.\n\nlastly, pentencostal churches were there during the time of jesus christ, is only that  people did not know that they were called as such, or did not yet name them.\n\ntake the book of john for instance, where by jesus went to heaven and left a message to his followers, he said that preach my message to all, baptist every one who want to follow me.the pentecostal churches are the followers , as they went from house to house preaching the word of christ and baptising people. they did not wait for people to look for them, as like the other churches.\n\nin another book ( the songs of songs) there is a book that says, glorified to the lord, clap and praise to the lord, (the pentencostal churches followed this verse by clapping and jumping, cring when praying, unlike other chuches were by they pray very quietly even though they are happy or crying. they find it very strange when some one cry while praying.a person only crying when he or she finds it difficult to ask for forgiveness from GOD, and such is asking or pleading to jesus to open the door for his forgiveness.\n\nthe aim of the pentescostal chuches is to preach and make people understands the true version of the bible, as most people misunderstood the bible and its meaning. its only today that there is a name for that church, other wise we will still be
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I don't know. however you can listen to some here: http://www.spiritandsong.com/radio/stations/3\n\nWith love in Christ.
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I have also. My hubby was saved at one in Oregon. We plan on going to another in a few weeks. THey are a blast and help you fellowship with other Christians. I learn so much from them.