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Praying In or Preying on the Spirit… |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Sunday, 04 February 2007 |
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If you’ve been following our web forums you will know that the question of “praying in the Spirit” has recently been a subject of discussion. Having followed those discussions I thought that there might be some value in opening the debate up to a wider audience. Reading the threads took me back to the brand of Christianity that I knew before I knew Jesus and made me shudder.
I often describe myself with reference to my past in Pentecostalism as being 7 years sober and in some ways that tongue-in-cheek [no pun intended] allusion to alcoholism fits rather neatly. I won’t bore you with the back-story, suffice to say that this ‘circle’ was raised in what is known as Four-Square Pentecostalism a robust evangelical environment in which truly saved spoke in tongues, heal, and busy themselves preparing planet earth for the arrival of the soon coming King which depending on whether you drunk the full or semi-skimmed version would not happen until the church has preached the Gospel to the entire world.
What disturbs me so much as I look back is that I was so dedicated to the whole depressing business, suppressing all my better instincts and only seeing the ‘facts’ that suited our paradigm. Anyway this is not meant to be a retrospective so let me stop there. The salient point being that when I left Pentecostalism I didn’t bring the household idols with me. As soon as I was able to put some distance between myself in the here and now & Pentecostalism in “the now and not yet” so to speak, I most urgently wanted to re-evaluate two things: firstly my ecclesiology [doctrine of the church – what it was and how we ‘do’ it] & secondly my pnuematology [doctrine of the Spirit]. What I discovered was that in order to reconstruct them I had first to completely deconstruct them.
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Feb
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The Pathway Course Grace East |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Thursday, 01 February 2007 |
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“Journey into Freedom”!
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Session 1
11th Mar 2007
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Most of us make spiritual progress through disillusionment. Journeys’ that begin in tears end in joy. Follow one such story from anxiety to assurance.
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Session 2
25th Mar 2007
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~ Get A Life -
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~ The Taming of the True-
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Session 3
15th April
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There is a significant difference between having Chris t in our lives and Christ being our life. And there is a difference between being loved & being accepted. Discover the secret of both.
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What it means to grow in grace
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Session 4
29thlApril 2007
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~ The Three Phases –
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-Little Children -
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Session 5
13th May 2007
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The spiritual odyssey that is the pilgrimage from having confidence in God to becoming the confidants of God
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The first phase of spiritual growth
“Let the children come unto me”
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Session 6
27th May 2007
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-Knowing the Father –
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-Knowing the Father- [2]
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Session 7
10th June 2007
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God is Love – Unpacking
1 Corinthians 13
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God is Love – Unpacking
1 Corinthians 13
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Session 8
24th June
8th July 2007
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-The Parable of the Talented -
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-Yours sins have been forgiven-
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Session 9
22nd July 2007
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Why we can’t understand the Bible
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I know God loves me but…
What if I keep on sinning?
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Session 10
15th July 2007
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-Eternally Secure -
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paul franklin
