(8/29/98)
“Abundant Life Foursquare Church in Bremerton is conducting a revival Friday and Saturday featuring special music by More Than Milk, a Christian rap group from Emmanuel Apostolic Church in Bremerton,” according to a news item in the August 27th, 1998 Bremerton Sun.
What do Bible believing Evangelical Christians have in common with such a religious group? People who go to Foursquare fellowships are generally people who profess a relationship with the God of the Bible. But Emmanuel Apostolic is a member organization of the denomination called the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. They teach that you are not saved unless you are baptized in “Jesus’ name” only. That you must speak in tongues as an evidence of salvation. They do not believe in the Trinity, but teach that there is “Jesus only”.
This is not the God of the Bible. These are not the teachings of God’s Word.
There is great pressure in these last days to blur the distinctions and unequally yoke with unbiblical groups in the name of “community”; in the name of “unity”.
But it is a matter of integrity to stand for the uncompromised truth of the Word of God.
“Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
2 Timothy 4:2-4
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