Assembly of God

[Spartan Sprinter]

Hey guys, Does the "Assembly of God" have sound doctrine or are they a red flag?

I'm just curious as i seen these 2 pastors from my home state as guests on the Patrick Ben David show recently and they were saying some good things on there but there was something in the back of my mind nagging me about their domination but i couldn't quite remember or put a finger on it ?

 

[Tall Timbers]

I used to like Assemblies of God. The ones I've visited in recent years have gone NAR.

 

[Cheeky200386]

Red flag!! They are Charismatic.

 

[Margery]

Here in Canada they are the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada- mainline Pentecostals. However I have the same experience that Tall Timbers mentions.

It's not so much that they are charismatic, it's the type of charismatic stuff that is infecting a lot of churches now. Some charismatic stuff is fine, other stuff like NAR, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, and that weirdo in Redding CA - they are NOT fine.

NAR stuff is common, along with a dash of Word of Faith stuff. Some of the really heretical 1948 Latter Rain Movement and the teachings of William Branham has infected some churches even though the Assemblies of God and the PAOC came out against it in the beginning.

Daughter, son in law and the 5 granddaughters attend a PAOC church in Clearwater BC- it's the one I go to online for Sundays. It's one of the ones that is pretty clean. The pastor is excellent and preaches a good solid sermon every Sunday. The people he allows in the pulpit are good for the most part. Occasionally one slips thru, but he's pretty quick in his "cleanup on aisle 6"

He's older though. And he's been around the block so he knows stuff like @mattfivefour knows stuff. Experienced.

As always each individual church is different. In this age of deception even a good name on the door doesn't mean what it used to.

Use caution. You might come up with a gem like I have, or you might find yourself in a den of wolves.

 

[Hol]

Another caution, many of the AOG churches are being led towards union with the RCC, even high level meetings with the Pope. They aren’t usually honest about that because they don’t want to rattle the sheep.

Most are not instructing their members to place a high value on individual Bible study. They often appeal to a high value on emotional fellowship.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

Thanks heaps guys for your input, as i mentioned , maybe it was the Holy spirit giving me that uneasy feeling when i was contemplating checkign the church out.

Now he has used you all to explain why i was getting that handbrake/ hesitation feeling.

 

[LydiaJoy]

I used to like Assemblies of God. The ones I've visited in recent years have gone NAR.

I used to like them too. I used to be a teacher of a Friends Bible study group for 6-8th grade girls. It was such a great program, kind of like Christian girl scouts. I really miss those days.

https://ngm.ag.org/Teen-Girls/Friends

NAR is really really scary.

 

[mattfivefour]

Some AOG churches are great. But some are NAR. You've got to try them out to see. Anymore you just cannot go by the name on any church.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I attended an AOG church in Nebraska for 4 or 5 years in the 1980s then moved away. I really liked that church. They had a building fund because they needed a bigger church. When I moved back some years later they had a big beautiful new building that was mostly empty during services. I don't know what happened to cause the church members to flee.

Before that I often attended an AOG in California. I've got a bit of Pentacostal in me from my early Christian years. AOG was like Pentacostal Lite without a lot of the crazy paranormal pretending I saw in the Pentacostal churches.

When I first moved to Alaska I sometimes attended an AOG in Fairbanks. It was more conservative than my previous AOG experiences. Later it went NAR.

 

[Batman]

I agree with all posters, used to be really good on doctrine but I was never a fan of the twists and turns of the non-cessation platform. It all fell in when they were deeply overtaken into the televangelist/hyper-charismatic partnerships up to and now in to the NAR, etc.

 

[Set Free]

The AOG's that I know and once attended was Pentecostal and Arminian (salvation can be lost). This one Christian I knew was in AOG was big into "praying the blood of Christ", and experiencing the Holy Spirit, tongues, falling down, and so forth. They seemed like a lot of churches and seem to go along with what they are taught by their pastors and don't really search the scriptures like Bereans. I never felt comfortable there and never returned. Being a Christian to them seemed to be more experiential like fillings with the Holy Spirit.
The late Jimmy Swaggart was an AOG pastor, which is scarry.

 

[Set Free]

I was at a church that may have been NAR. Instead of a Bible study they were going through a Derek Prince book called, "Bought with Blood." I quit going there last fall. Derek Prince taught praying the blood. That, along with other things I read about him, turned me off like pastor control. NAR seems to be big in the televangelism world.