Why does Sarah Palin now claim that she is not Pentecostal?
Barbara E from Houston Texas asked:
Didn’t she belong to an Assemblies of God Church for many years? That church/denomination claims to be Pentecostal. One of the major doctrines is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
Didn’t she belong to an Assemblies of God Church for many years? That church/denomination claims to be Pentecostal. One of the major doctrines is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
I myself am Pentecostal, so I certainly have nothing against that religious persuasion, I just want to know if Sarah Palin moved away from it for political reasons.
Do you know?
It was definitely political. She didn’t want to draw attention to herself in the Pentecostal church.
The movie Jesus camp
The only one that TRULY knows, is her.
I can’t pretend to know her motives, nor can her critics. I can tell you that I was raised in the Baptist Church and attended a Baptist Church as a young adult. I now go to a church of a different denomination because as I studied, I found my own beliefs were closer to those of my current church. Perhaps she had a similar experience.
She is lying.
For political reasons, of course.
You should write to her and ask her.
didn’t she leave that church for a different one a couple years ago?
I didn’t know she was not claiming to not be Pentecostal.
Do you have a source for this?
Not all Assemblies of God churches are Pentecostal. The Assemblies allows the church to have more of a free reign in what is being taught in the individual churches. I belong to an Assemblies church and we do believe in Baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. I don’t know what is going on with Palin because this is the first I heard this. I just wanted to let you know about the Assemblies.
She would ride a caribou from Wasilla to DC and then shoot and gut it on the white house lawn if it would get all rednecks to vote for her.
so I would not be shocked if she changed churches as well.
yee haw !
She is and has been a Pentecostal and now she’s lying about it because she feels that even conservative voters will find tongues, healing, and slaying in the spirit too extreme.
Her minister claims that he never saw her speak in tongues, but I find that VERY hard to believe too. She was a member of that church most of her life.
She’s someone who turns her back on her faith when it’s politically expedient.
the same reason obama went to **** church and said he never heard a **** filled sermon,and all the other excuses he gave when it wasn”t to his advantage, but at lease Palin is all-american from the start
never heard that..wouldn’t judge her neither
i do recall her going to non denominaitonal church..which some folks does have speaking in tongues as i do.
i recently got email from FOLKS FWD over and over..to pray for her, said about, at the penecostal church she was anointed at AofG church before it was announced..SO..probably just a rumor
and it shouldn’t matter..christian should VOTE for REAL christian IN OFFICEby the fruits we see them done, palin in politic for 13 years vs obama 6.
run a city then state, I see GOD in all of that.as well see GOD saving JOHN McCain in that big crash and fire..he is the only one that surived..I see GOD THERE TOO..even lived through the abuse and pains of POW..truly these 2 are chosen to RUN USA.for GOD see what we DON’T see coming in the horizon.
People can change denominations. Often one may attend a church that more closely adheres to their particular beliefs, but is not really completely in line with their faith. When they move to another city- they may find a different church.
Yes even though AOG is a pentecostal church- not all members are pentecostal. Just like in a baptists church- some are pentecostal but most are not, some are Calvinists other are not. . Sometimes people become disenchanted with a particular denomination because of what the denomination is developing into.
Look at how many disgruntled people have left the Episcopal church or the United Methodist.
I seriously doubt here move is political. Maybe convenience, or maybe theological.
I was raised in a Methodist church. Was saved in a Baptist church, helped start a Pentecostal church, and a Baptist church. Now I attend an Independent Church. People can change.
she felt the doctrine was to loose for the majority of people, but she is one who is not afraid to say that Jesus still performs miracles that man cannot explain
Did she ever claim she WAS Pentecostal, or is that just YOU making a judgment call? Why is it important?
The Episcopal church has a well-publicized rift over homosexuality in the ranks of its priests. The official position of the church is that there can be (and are) ********** priests (and even a bishop or two). Many people who do not agree with that but still consider themselves Episcopal have been forced to find other associations (some with Anglican offshoots), and many have had their churches and property built by parishioners seized by the official organization.
If there can be this sort of disagreement within one sect (and there are many others going through this), does someone with your mindset overlook this and claim that Palin, if she was Episcopal, supported homosexuality? Or if she were a long-standing member of a church that had ‘broken away’, claim that she was a homophobe?
If you know anything about the history of Assemblies of God. you would know that it, like all other churches, was the creation of people, and like anything created by people, is subject to change. AoG was, until 1967, officially pacifist, a ‘peace church’, and opposed involvement in war. Now, that is left up to each individual church and member to decide.
What is to say that YOUR church’s practices are the same as Palin’s, thus qualifying you to judge her motives and what she calls herself?