The Teachings of Pentecostalism

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Bert Mulder
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The Teachings of Pentecostalism

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Azusa Street Revival and Pentecostalism (2)
By Herman C Hanko

Pentecostalism is seriously wrong when it speaks of the second blessing or baptism with the Holy Spirit as a power to bring the child of God to a higher level of spirituality and piety. By doing this, Pentecostalism speaks scornfully of the ordinary life of the Christian who daily fulfills his or her calling in life in the home, the church, or the shop. This daily struggle with sin, this constant battle to live in obedience to God, this mundane and routine willingness to bear one’s cross in patience, all this and so much more that belongs to the life of the Christian in the world is looked down on and denigrated. Such a Christian is, in the eyes of Pentecostalism, a second- class Christian who has not attained to the higher, nobler, more spiritual level of piety and Christian experience that belongs to the spiritually elite. Such a wicked classification of Christians smacks of Phariseeism.
Mijn enige troost is, dat ik niet mijn, maar Jezus Christus eigen ben, Die voor mijn zonden betaald heeft, en zo bewaart, dat alles tot mijn zaligheid dienen moet; waarom Hij mij ook door Zijn Heilige Geest van eeuwig leven verzekert, en Hem voortaan te leven van harte willig en bereid maakt.
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