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All Shook Up All Shook Up

Experience in Pentecostal churches fired a love of music many early rockers couldn't shake

Randall J. Stephens, excerpted from The Fire Spreads | posted 5/29/2008 10:11AM

The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South
By Randall J. Stephens
Harvard University Press (January 31, 2008)
416 pp., $27.95

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Marie

Posted: May 30, 2008 10:34 AM

Jesus told his disciples that they should rejoice that their names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. If God wants to shake me up every day to get me to heaven--I'm all for it, myself. It is the blood shed by Jesus that gives us eternal life. I quit being a believer twice, but the third time I told God I would never stop seeking him--No matter how hard it seemed. My greatest fear is that I will be just a church goer. Through the Holy Spirit, I want my life to be full of the nine fruits of the Spirit and full of the gifts of the Spirit. I also want the wisdom, understanding and knowledge of His Word.Daily seeking God is the most important step we take--no matter the mistakes, or even falling short--God will be there to help us grow in the knowledge of the Gospel of the Kingdom and doing the will of God. Never give up--Jesus didn't give up--He gave body as a sacrifice, enduring the suffering for the salvation of the whole world. He tells us this in a 66 book called the Bible.

todd	Posted: May 29, 2008 2:25 PM


To NT Newman: Yes, your concern is valid. Many churches of Pentacostal tradition have made great advances in providing explanation and teaching to accompany what may appear to many to be strange behavior. As in Acts 2 with Peter's sermon, we are responsible in providing context and understanding as to the manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

N. T. Newman

Posted: May 29, 2008 2:09 PM


I attended several Pentecostal services as a child; it was very frightening to me! I had no preparation or interpretation of the service, meaning, or even faith, and therefore it could have scewed my thinking for life. Luckily it did not; I am of a different faith group; but wish that experience had been better handled............ NTN

Dorothy Miller

Posted: May 29, 2008 1:23 PM

The first time I head Pentecostal music was when I went with my friends to a Church of God when I was a Freshman in high school. I've played the piano since I was in the 6th grade but never heard music like that. I loved it. When they got down on the floor, annointed with oil and generally yelled I got scared and ran home but the music stayed with me. Since that time I have gone to Pentecostal churches and still love the music.

todd	Posted: May 29, 2008 1:06 PM

It's high time the Pentacostal faith be given its just due, not just in music, but its evangelistic efforts and far reaching influence with those groups who mainline denominations wanted nothing to do with at one time. Nowadays, evangelicals are just crying out for Justice, and at the same time denying the lasting impact that the Pentcostal movement had in reaching the poor, downtrodden, and minorities in America. Sorry evangelicals, but your cries for justice are about 60-70 years to late. But as usual, you will attempt to take credit for a movement you denied for decades. In Addition, Pentacostal faith has become the most influential in places like Africa and South America because those ministers don't carry an air of superiority and arrogance that is so prevalent among evangelicals and mainline denominations. As throughout pentascostal history, they meet people and mininster to them without expectations to abandon their culture and identity.

eef	Posted: May 29, 2008 12:02 PM


Pentecostal "worship" or entertainment? "Spirt lead" or emotional envolvment or fenzie.? I wonder?

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