Maybe I ought to start showing videos of all the Baptists spreading lies about God's word. Maybe I should start showing videos off all the Baptist women coming out and documenting the spiritual/ritual abuse they endured for years under their baptist husbands and pastors, who turned their husbands into over sexed marital rapists, beat their wives for talking in church, kept their wives "under"control and a host of other emotional, spiritual and physical abuses.
Maybe we should show Baptist videos of emotionally disturbed Baptist pastors screaming a their congregations to never suffer the Rod on their kids and its ok to beat SIN out of them,and they won't die. Maybe we should show the teachings of law and legalism and more emotionally out of control Baptist pastors judging and condemning those that wear jeans, eat pork and have long hair, smoke, drink or engage in marital sex for other than procreation. Lets be sure to include the videos of them stack ranking sin of homosexuality and condemning sinner to a devils hell, because they will never get clean, lets show the ones where the generate the spirit of fear to insure the right guy gets elected.
Lets show the re-dedication videos of the same ones coming down to rededicating every Sunday after partying every Saturday night. Let's show the ones were they say since you are OSAS, its cool to live any way you want.
And lets show the anger of most Baptist pastors as they demand everyone swear allegiance to the AKJV Bible.
In fact most of the videos I could post, show Baptist pastors very angry all the time....its hard living under the law.
On second thought I won't, because it would put me in the same league as them.
I don't know what kind of Baptists you are talking about, but it sure is not either of the conventions I have been a member of. I would never attend a KJV Only Church. Seeing as I can't make head nor tale of the 16th century English, despite speaking and/or reading 5 other languages!
My pastor takes a long passage of Scripture, exegetes it and then applies it. He throws in some colourful illustrations, none of which advocate beating women or children, or condemning anyone. Mind you, he has a Ph.D in preaching, has studied under some of the greatest preachers alive today, and cares like a shepherd for his congregation.
But then, if he didn't, I would not attend this church. We had one elder who preached the worst sermon I have ever heard i my life, with no Scripture, just a business model of how to run a church and a lot of legalism. No one is in the sanctuary when it is his turn to preach when our senior pastor is away.
I think you might be talking about weird right wing independent fundamentalists!
But I won't defend Baptists, because there are things that are wrong in every denomination, including Baptist churches, and my own.
I think Stephen has really clearly stated his point, about the excesses in the Pentecostal movement do not represent classic Pentecostalism. And with regards to why the movement attracts so many people, I know I was a Pentecostal for 15 years, when I got saved, because, yes, there was a lot of excitement and I wanted to be where the excitement was.
Now I know that is not every church, and I think the Word Faith movement is really the heresy we need to address. I did not view the video, but I can imagine from the comments what it said. Sadly, the Word Faith movement has filtered back into not just the Pentecostal movement, but pretty much every denomination, unless the doctrine is sound, and the pastor is preaching and teaching to a mature congregation.
People want excess these days, inside and outside of the church. And people perish for lack of knowledge.