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How has Pentecostal or charismatic practices influenced your faith?
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Saved from Destruction and Hell (June 17, 2004)
My dad was an old-time Holiness minister, and I was a disgrace to the human race, until April 1972; I had done everything I was taught against and then some. I hit bottom when Daddy was called home to his reward. I had a pistol loaded and ready to use on myself. I thought, "I'm going to that Pentecostal church out of respect for my Daddy. Then I'll put my boys to bed and put a pillow over my head so I don't wake them when the gun fires."

I got to church and had to sit on a chair in front of the front bench. When the altar call was given, I didn't have to go far. I had sat there and stared at that altar throughout the service. I received my Pentecostal experience that night. I spoke in tongues as the Apostles did on the day of Pentecost and rejoiced in the Lord. Today, my husband walks beside me. In faith. God took a group of people and made them a family and a house and made it a home and God is The Head of our home.

Melba McVay Christie
Emerson, AR (Listens via Online Audio)

Pentecostalism Has Changed My Life (June 14, 2004)
The Pentecostal (Apostolic) doctrine has changed my life. Not only do I realize that Jesus lives in me and leads me through everything I go through now that he filled me with His Spirit, but I can have the comfort to know that all of my sins are washed away because I was baptized in His name, Jesus. You see, I realized the Bible tells us that the full Pentecostal experience is both baptism in Jesus' name and the infilling of His Spirit as Peter said it was on the Day of Pentecost.

Thank you for airing this vital topic. IT is necessary. Thanks again.

Jonathan Dudeck
Emerson, AR (Listens via Online Audio)