Why do Apostolic Pentecostals often behave in a brusque manner?
Before I answer the question, let me first define the word brusque for those of you who do not know the word. Brusque: said of a person or their manner, etc: blunt and often impolite; curt The Apostolic, United Pentecostal Church as well as the trinitarian Freewill Holiness churches teach a theology known as Bible Holiness. The Bible Holiness Movement is a body of Christians who profess to be in earnest to get to heaven, by conforming to all the will of God, as made known in His Word. They do not believe that either God or the Bible has changed to accommodate the fashionable tendencies of the age. They solemnly protest against the union of the Church and the world. The conditions of salvation, as they teach, are the same now that they were in the days of the apostles. He who would be a Christian in reality, as well as in name, must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Jesus. He must come out from the world and be separate, and touch not the unclean thing. While this does n
I don’t know if your “Apostolic Pentecostals” are the same denominiation as the Apostolics in the UK, but I haven’t found them especially “brusque”. What I have found is that people of many of the “stricter” denominations, including Apostolics tend to become very insular and there is a temptation to feel superior to, or even fear spiritual “contamination” from those who don’t have the same “vision”, or don’t emphasise the same aspects of “Truth” as they do. This can be true of people in all denominations, but especially true of small self-contained groups. Often these folks never join with other Christians of different traditions and have no idea what goes on outside their narrow sphere of experience. Even their way of talking and theological cliches may be different to others. A Catholic friend for example, once asked me to say a Novena for someone, (what’s that????), and I thought a “monstrance” had something to do with “monstrosity”. I was also involved for a time in a particular “h
Related Questions
- Like all of us ive made mistakes but this lead to negative experiences with my Church Leader that I thought should have been faith promoting (they defiantly weren that). I feel ive lost my faith in Christ, what can I do to get it back?
- Why do trinitarians say Apostolic Pentecostals deny the Father/Son/Holy Spirit?
- Why don all Christian denominations use the same Bible?
