🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <tcdik7s4rpl316@corp.supernews.com>, Byker says...
>
>Adrian <Adriannews@Worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:exxx6.5703$RF1.298499@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> LEAD STORY: by J. Lee Grady
>> Thousands Unite to Repent of Pentecostal Divisions
>>

The White Pentecostals will never compete with a sweaty, Jesus-jumping, nigger
choir. 

Boelke




>> Solemn Assembly in Atlanta focused on humility, not showcasing famous
>> ministers
>>
>> Thousands of black and white Pentecostals met this week in a 10,000-seat
>> Baptist church in suburban Atlanta to repent for the racism and
>> denominational exclusivity that has fractured their movement for decades.
>> White Christians swayed to the rhythms of a black gospel choir, blacks
>> cheered for white preachers, and blacks and whites knelt together in front
>> of a huge stage where they shouted praises and wept over their historic
>> divisions.
>
>"Divisions" will become Grand Canyons after this summer's power blackout
>bongo parties.....
>
>> The unique 50-hour prayer vigil, called Solemn Assembly 2001, was held at
>> one of the nation's most visible black megachurches, 25,000-member New
>Birth
>> Cathedral, pastored by Bishop Eddie L. Long.  On opening night the
>audience
>> was reminded that the 1906 Azusa Street Revival - which spread
>> Pentecostalism worldwide - began as a multiracial movement led by a black
>> pastor, but later became segregated because of cultural prejudice.
>>
>> Robert Fisher, 69, a Church of God minister from Cleveland, Tenn.,
>> envisioned Solemn Assembly more than a year ago and raised the money to
>fund
>> it. A descendant of Azusa Street preachers, Fisher had long dreamed of
>> organizing a meeting where all streams of the Pentecostal and charismatic
>> movements would put their differences behind them.
>>
>> Early in his planning, Fisher decided that he would not showcase famous
>> ministers or pay speakers' fees. Even though the roster included people
>such
>> as Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson and Assemblies of God general
>> superintendent Thomas Trask, nationally known leaders were not given
>> preferential treatment. Speakers' time slots were determined by drawing
>> names out of a hat.
>>
>> "What has excited people most about this meeting is we didn't lift up
>> personalities," Fisher said. "That is what brought division at Azusa
>Street,
>> and that is what causes division the most."
>>
>> The 7,000 participants at Solemn Assembly were encouraged to fast, as well
>a
>>  s to linger at late-night prayer sessions. Those who led in prayer
>> addressed racism, gender prejudice and generational divisions. But leaders
>> acknowledged that the most serious differences are denominational,
>> especially the breach that exists between Oneness and Trinitarian
>> Pentecostals. The two camps split in 1916 and rarely associate with each
>> other today because of differences over baptism and the triune nature of
>> God.
>>
>> At one point Pentecostal historian Vinson Synan asked for a show of hands
>to
>> see if anyone from a Oneness Pentecostal church was attending the meeting.
>> No one in the huge auditorium responded. Synan then prayed: "Lord we
>repent
>> of the divisions. We've fallen short of your glory. Heal us."
>>
>> Synan told "Charisma" that healing the Oneness division is a matter of
>> "unfinished business," but he said there is willingness on the part of
>> leaders in the Church of God, the Assemblies of God and other Trinitarian
>> groups to reach out to Oneness leaders. Fisher also noted that he invited
>> the general superintendent of the largest Oneness denomination in the
>United
>> States to attend Solemn Assembly. But Nathaniel Urshan of the United
>> Pentecostal Church declined to attend.
>>
>> Other denominational differences were addressed at Solemn Assembly,
>> especially the chasm that exists between Pentecostals and the nation's
>> largest Protestant group, the Southern Baptist Convention. On the second
>> night of the conference, members of Southern Baptist congregations came to
>> the altar pray for their denomination - which opposes Pentecostal
>doctrines.
>>
>>
>
>