{"id":182,"date":"2011-09-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-09-08T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:00:00","slug":"christian-tour-part-8-pentecosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/09\/08\/christian-tour-part-8-pentecosta\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Tour Part 8: Pentecostal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The eighth visit this summer was to my friend Danny’s church in Greenfield Park near Montreal. He attends the South Shore Community Church<\/a> which is a member of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada<\/a> (PAOC). I was hoping he was still attending this church as it would really round out my tour of churches this summer and I was going to be in Montreal in late August (plus, Danny is a reader of this blog).<\/div>\n
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Blaise came along with me, Danny and his son. We were on time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As with most of the summer services I’ve attended, the place wasn’t packed. People milled around the sanctuary before the service. It started off with 3 or 4 worship songs which were not as rambunctious as I had hoped the charismatics would be, good though. There was a prayer time for the children before sending them to their class and a nice story about their summer kids ministry. Offering was brought by the members to the front of the sanctuary and a special song was shared by a member.<\/div>\n
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At this point I took note that no one had been slain by the Spirit, no one was rolling in the aisles, and nobody was speaking in tongues. There were a lot of “yesssss Jesssuussssss” and plenty of clapping, but nothing too caricatured.<\/div>\n
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The sermon was shared by a former member of the church who was visiting from China where he and his wife work. It was an interesting message and all very informal. <\/div>\n
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Following the message, there was an invitation to come for prayer and a team of ministry people received them at the front of the church. It didn’t extend the service as it was afterwards and those who weren’t participating were free to leave. <\/div>\n
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Blaise enjoyed his kids class and driving over the bridges back to Montreal and then Laval in the rain.<\/div>\n
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The eighth visit this summer was to my friend Danny’s church in Greenfield Park near Montreal. He attends the South Shore Community Church which is a member of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC). I was hoping he was still attending this church as it would really round out my tour of churches this summer … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-182","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-travel","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}