YOU KNOW, I GET CONCERNED WHEN I HEAR SOME SO-CALLED PREACHERS PREACH.

YOU KNOW, I GET CONCERNED WHEN I HEAR SOME SO-CALLED PREACHERS PREACH. 

I think am heartbroken about their knowledge of The Word Of God. They say that they are spiritual and spirit-filled and that they desire everyone to be like them, speaking and praying in tongues, being slain in the spirit, and laughing. But to hear their sermons makes me wonder how can they be spiritual when they don't even understand Spiritual things. They claim to be Born Again, but say that they are still in the flesh. They say that they are saved by Grace, but they think that you can lose your Salvation. They say that they speak in tongues but they don't understand why and what the tongues are for. As I write this I realize how sad this is, that this is actually happening in The Church. This is so sad. Now that he has been rebuked Scripturally, he has said that he is not going to leave. He thinks that because the number of his followers outnumbers the original members of the Church, he doesn't have to worry. I'm not concerned about that too much, because had the ones that voted him in, had known what all his beliefs were, he would have never been voted in the first place. The original members are from the Baptist denomination. We are all well acquainted with the Baptists and their beliefs. I have been a Christian for over forty years and twenty of those years were in the Baptist denomination. I have been all over going to revivals, ladies retreats, and tent meetings, and not one of them ever spoke in tongues, never did they start laughing uncontrollably, and never was anyone slain in the spirit. The Baptists didn't really want you to raise your hands, they will say Amen, but never ever did they do anything near those things that I have mentioned. He knew that all of our backgrounds were Baptist when he came in view of a call. He never once mentioned that he believes that you are Baptized in The Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. That is the Holiness, Assembly of God, or Pentecostal beliefs, not Baptist. What some of us call reserved and reverence, he calls dead. He made a point to tell everyone on Facebook that we were dead when he got there and he brought The Holy Spirit to us. I have to ask, is one person more spiritual than another, because one runs around the room shouting, or one falls out in the floor laughing, are either of those more Spiritual than the one that just sits there with their head bowed and cries when The Holy Spirit is moving in them? There can always be an outward show and not a real heart change. I feel like he was deceptive from the very beginning. He talked about Spirit-filled Baptist, which is almost an oxymoron in itself. Had he expounded on the word Spirit-filled we could have asked more questions, we could have gotten his full definition, and we could have let him that day that he was not a good fit for us and we wouldn't be in this position today. I get back to how very sad this all is because we are the people who are supposed to know what True Love Is because we know The Love That God Has by His Sending His Loving Son To Die For Us. I know that I can leave because I know the truth and will be able to do fine without hearing him preach ever again. I can not help but wonder about those though, that I would leave behind. What about them? Should I stay and fight the good fight of Faith, or just walk away? If I walk away from them, who will be there to help them along their way? I do know though that the people that I'm concerned about, did come from the same Church that he came from, they know him and his beliefs they may even share in them. Even knowing this, I can't just leave the sheep under the wolf's control. I have a certain and clear understanding of The Word of God, and I know what he is doing is flat-out wrong. I also am a woman and therein lies my dilemma, as a woman, I am to learn in silence and keep quiet in the Church. I don't resent my position because this is the way that God has created me to be. This is all His design for His Devine Purpose. When I say fight the good fight of Faith, I mean Prayer! I Pray for The Lord to open the eyes of all of the people concerned. Beseech God for them for His protection, on their behalf, because they truly don't know that what he is doing is wrong. Pray, Pray, Pray because this is going to take The Mighty Work Of God To Fix This!

Donna K Purifoy

7/22/2022