Back in '92 to '96 I was fully invovled with Christain fellowship groups.
In the period of '92 to '94 I was invovled with the Anglican church & Christain Surfers,yea they were cool.The services at the Anglican were a bit low-key & yea by the time it was mid '94 I need a change & thats when I to youth-young adults conference at Hillsong called Youth Alive.
Now anyone who's fellowship member of an Anglican church goes to full-on-in-your face-style of service that Hillsong is well known for..is in for a shock!
It's like a rock concert & it's full of people that you would want to go & fellowship with any given sunday coz they're so friendly!
They'll tell you to go a church with the style of Hillsong & ditch the Anglicans behind!
"Find a church that's on fire," was the most common used term.
During that long weekend at Hillsong & in a group of 5,000 other people going nuts for God,I witnessed so much crazy shit during that 3 day stay & that weekend was the birth of my 2 year relationship of the Charsmatic Pentacostal movement.
What is a Pentacostal/Charsmatic Church
The sort of church that's non-traditionalized,most of these group hold their fellowships in rent-a-halls,RSL's & never held in a traditionised style church buliding.
These group claim they're 'off-shoots' of the traditional churches,but you would got the feeling that who started this group had some form of falling-out with the trad-church that started of with.
Hillsong,Assemblies Of God,Revival Centre,Community Church,Lamb Of God,The Chlidrens Bread & many other weird titles that you can poke a stick at!Hey check out your local White-Pages!
After that Youth Alive/Hillsong conference & no desire to go back to borring Anglican coz I discovered a group called Christain Outreach Centre & that where I stayed for those 2 years in '94-'96.
WHAT GOES ON INSIDE A PENTACOSTAL GROUP?
All sorts of crazy of shit!
'SPEAKING IN TONGUES or PRAYING TONGUES' is where a person claims they're speaking the language of the Holy Spirit,sounds weird?wait there's more.......to do this action the prayer sound more like gibberish or sounds of a sound infant babbling away at high speed!One group called THE REVIVAL CENTRE claimed if you dont pray in tongues,you are going to hell.So if ya an active member in that group & give shitloads of money to the Revival Centre & you dont want ot sound like some babbling fool coz the whole church is.... ya goin to hell baby!
Now if that sounded nuts wait for..........
'SLAIN IN THE HOLY SPIRIT'
Have you ever seen someone gettin prayed while standing up & the pastor places his hand on the person being prayed for & that person falls down into the arms of two guys standing behind the person being prayed for
Well that person is "being slain by the holy spirit".This person who being prayed for & then falls backward is being K-O'd by the Holy Ghost!or so they say!When the pastor places his hand your head & screams a prayer to command to rid them nasty demons,he passes the holy spirit on to you & them BAM-WAM you fall back on the floor.You may cry,like they used to,you may laugh (one I did coz I slipped a cheesy fart as the Pastor tried to prayed for me...I think he noticed too!hahha!) & may just rest there on the floor & catch-up on a 'nanna-nap' from being on the piss the nite before!
So that sounded nutty....well check this out,even Hillsong believed this
ATTACK FROM THE DEVIL
If you had an family argument,well this considered 'an attack of the devil'...
If you horny,well blame the devil!
If you get a cold,well that naughty red-man is the blame!
If you're concern that you must pay that bill & your focus is dimmed from God coz you just wanna pay that fucking bill before they cut shut-off your home electricity.....it's the devil & his demons again!
Anything at all is the work of the devil & the demons coz the church say so.......and when it happens up the front of the church you go & get prayed for!
