I know all about this denomination, I was involved with an Assembly of God Church for 10 years; and went to several in my days as a pentecostal. I am happy to report that in 2004, after about a year of careful and prayerful study; I parted ways with these sort of Churches for good.
This is not to say that there are not any good people and very sincere people in that denomination; there are many of them. Unfortunately, the doctrinal errors negate that, in my opinion. I will also fully admit; that there was a good deal of emotional abuse that took place, at least in the Church that I attended. I saw a good deal of it given out, by the youth Pastor, who was there when I went to the Church I attended for 10 years.
The story via The Christian Post (WARNING: Turn on your Ad blocker!): Thousands Expected at Assemblies of God 100th Anniversary Celebration; Estimated 10.5 Million to View AG’s Centennial Live This Sunday.
Thousands of attendees are expected to attend the Assemblies of God 100th anniversary celebration in Springfield, Missouri, this week, including several international dignitaries. AG is one of the world’s fastest-growing Protestant movements and the largest Pentecostal denomination.
“It’s a great celebration of our church which is bringing in delegates from all over the world and all across America,” says Dr. George Wood, the General Superintendent of Assemblies of God, as reported by Ozarks First. “There is a strong focus on evangelism – sharing the good word of Jesus Christ with those who don’t know him.”
In addition to AG General Superintendent Dr. George O. Wood, keynote addresses will be delivered by an array of international speakers, such as Yong Mok Cho of South Korea, Juan Carlos Escobar of Spain, Edward A. Grabovenko of Russia, Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi, Barnabas Mtokambali of Tanzania, Ivan Satyavrata of India, José Wellington of Brazil and Max Schläpfer of Switzerland. Other U.S. speakers include Hal Donaldson, John Lindell, Wilfredo “Choco” De Jesús, Nam Soo Kim, Jason Frenn (who ministers in Latin America), and Raegan Glugosh, a U.S. missionary to Romania.
Dignitaries in attendance include President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana, who will be recognized as a special guest the evening of Aug. 7, the opening day of the event. Mahama is a widely published author who is proficient in eight languages.
I will not even get into the fact that the Church that I attended, at one time; had a sexual predator in it. Thankfully, he had moved on the greener pastures, by the time I arrived at that Church.
I to am a product of AoG up-bringing. Having been involved in ministry works for over 30 years I can only conclude the AoG s the leading apostate church in the world presently.
I hear ya Al.
I attended an Assemblies of God Church for 10 years in southwest Detroit and I went to those kind of churches for 21 years of my walk with the Lord.
So, I completely understand where you’re coming from. This is not to say that most of the people that attend those churches are not sincere believers in the Lord. They are very so.
They are just deceived people who happened to trust in a fallacy and that fallacy is that the signs and wonders are for today.
This is not to say that I don’t believe that they’re saved or on their way to Hell or anything like that. I happen to know that most of the people that I knew in Pentecostalism we’re truly saved, and did practice their faith with true sincerity.
However, there were a few people whose testimonies I did truly question and did truly question if they were actually converted or saved if you want to put it that way. I base that upon the actions of those people at times.
It saddens me that people that look at my website who are Christians and Pentecostals accuse me of being some sort of hate monger. The truth is I don’t hate anyone at all, least of all Pentecostal Christians. If anything at all, I want them to come out of that nonsense and come to truly trust in, believe in, and rely on; the finished work of God. Which is the Holy Bible more specifically the King James Bible.
That is what my faith rests in, not in some temporal gift that was never intended for the modern day Church, but was simply a confirmation of the Word of God for the apostles.
Hope this clears that up a bit.