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Before going into the details of the authority, I think
Share a bit of personal experience.
I grew up in a Christian home. We attended Vroom Street
Free Evangelical Church from my earliest memories. my father
had perfect attendance for literally decades.
In fact, I did a little preaching while I was in school. I was wearing a
Bible to school for a while and had a “Jesus saves” sticker on
my bike. However, there were other times when I used quite a bit
obscene language.
Peg and I got married in the late 1960s down south
Baptist Church that Peg grew up attending. we move to
Northern New Jersey and raised a family.
Our first daughter was born with a cleft lip and palate.
and had a series of corrective surgeries. second of peg
pregnancy ended with a premature delivery of a child who died on
day he was born Apparently his lungs were not yet
well developed at 7 months.
Around this time we got involved with the “Jesus Movement”
early 1970s. It started for us with the Maranatha
Coffee House Ministry at the Nazarene Church in New Milford,
NEW JERSEY. We help sponsor a “Jesus Gathering” at our American
Baptist Church in Oakland, New Jersey. We had close to 300 attendees and
about 75 responded to a call to “come to Jesus” and filled
take out a card These were all high school kids.
This “Jesus Movement” was definitely “full gospel” and through
Peg and I partner with the Full Gospel
International Fraternity of Businessmen. We attend many
FGBMFI meetings and conventions.
During this time we became familiar with the “Teaching of Faith”
by Kenneth Hagin, Norvel Hayes and Kenneth Copeland. I was a
very strict about verifying things with the Scriptures, so
he really studied what he was taught. part of the information
seemed “far away,” but the more I studied the scriptures
presented, the more I came to see biblical truth.
During one of the FGBMFI conventions I met a Catholic
Charismatic and spoke briefly with him. one thing i remember
was that his use of the word “grace” was quite different from
my understanding of that word. I was surprised how he
Charismatic Catholics could be “right”
doctrinally and still remain with the Catholic Church. From
My earliest memories understood that Catholics were not
really Christian because of all the other things that were
added to his Christian faith.
(continued in part 2 of 5)
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