“And if you do good to
those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the
same.” Luke 6:33
I am a Pentecostal. I
am glad to be a Pentecostal (notice I did not say “proud”). I have been “Pentecostal”
from within the first year or so of my faith in Christ. I am happy that my acquaintance
with Christ was not loaded down with a bunch of doctrinal baggage that
explained away what are commonly called the “gifts of the Spirit.” From early
on, in a Bible study I attended with a dozen or more people who found Christ
together in the mid 70s, we simply read the Bible together and accepted what it
said as if it were meant for us as well.
