clapping, shouting and speaking in tongues. Leaders may also ask people to come to the front of the church for healing, where they might anoint them with oil and pray
Getting a true sense of whether or not the church is sharing in the burden to reach the lost is paramount. If the church doesn’t share in the burden all efforts will be sabotaged and in vain. Have big events. There are built in big events that happen naturally in every church paradigm...
It quotes the lesbian co-pastor of a United Methodist Church in Atlanta, near my church, named Anjie Woodworth, as saying, “This change in our church law is so huge because it means folks can choose to show up as who they really are and still choose to serve God.”[i] Reading that...
The three denominations are the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), The Gospel Faith Mission International (GOFAMINT) and The Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM). The sample size for this study consisted of three denominations out of which nine churches were selected in Atlanta, and the ...
In Renewing Church and university: The twenty-seventh annual Reformation Day at Emory, ed. M. Patrick Graham, 7–18. Atlanta: Pitts Theology Library. Google Scholar Yong, Amos. 2010. In the days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and political theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Google Scholar Z...
At one level Poloma and Hood's book is a straightforward ethnographic study of "Blood and Fire," an Atlanta-based charismatic ministry affiliated with the emerging-church movement. At another level it struggles toward an empirical, scientific assessment of the Great Commandment "to love God and ...
This local church is a Spirit-filled, multi-cultural, multi-site, worshipping community in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.Alvarado, Johnathan EDissertations & Theses - GradworksAlvarado, J.E., 2012, `Worship in the Spirit: Pentecostal perspective on liturgical theology and praxis', Journal of ...
Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church. By Margaret M. Poloma and Ralph W. Hood, Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x+261 pp. $42.00 cloth. Blood and Fire strives to be an ethnographic account of a neo-Pentecostal congregation that models a form of ...
Though the church is immersed in this extreme culture, it is imperative, both ministers and saints recognize we cannot slumber and we cannot rage.There is simply too much at stake for God’s people to follow the lead of society. We cannot afford to simply “wing-it” and hope for the ...
It quotes the lesbian co-pastor of a United Methodist Church in Atlanta, near my church, named Anjie Woodworth, as saying, “This change in our church law is so huge because it means folks can choose to show up as who they really are and still choose to serve God.”[i] Reading that...