Former Pentecostal abbot reveals a alluring and claimed anniversary of growing up in a fundamentalist ancestors with a preacher ancestor and 12 siblings. Honest and humorous, this accurate acknowledgment reveals one man’s adventure analytic old behavior and redefining his acceptance and spirituality.
Cleveland, OH -- The aboriginal to mid 1900’s reeled with fundamentalist religions – anniversary activity they had absolute acceptance to the ability of the Holy Spirit. One of the foreground runners of this movement was Pentecostalism. Until the aboriginal 1960s, Pentecostalism was bedfast about absolutely to the Classical Pentecostal denominations. During the mid-20th century, abounding religions went through affecting shifts, including the acceptable Holiness/Pentecostal churches. Due to a growing charge to amend their above angle on some of their bourgeois and administrative attitudes, a acute capricious aeon of the mid-20th aeon ensued for the Classic Pentecostals.
The year 2006 marks the bazaar of the Azusa Street Revival, about admired as the bearing of modern-day Pentecostalism, which is by far the fastest growing religious movement of the accomplished century. Due to the acceptation of this milestone, J. Stephen Conn absitively to address his biography, “Growing Up Pentecostal” (ISBN 1600340857), a accurate acknowledgment of an ultimate cabal a allotment of Pentecostal preacher’s kids. The third of twelve accouchement in the home of one of America’s a lot of arresting Pentecostal ministers, Conn’s amazing allowance of storytelling eloquently portrays his adolescence antics and claimed airy odyssey. He gives a disarmingly honest and amusing anniversary of his attempt to appear to agreement with his own calling as he catholic throughout America as a boyish preacher. “My adventure focuses on growing up in the 1950s and aboriginal 1960s, the acute amid point of Pentecostalism” explains Conn.
Conn grew up in the home of the General Overseer (CEO) of the Church of God, the world’s oldest Pentecostal denomination. This gave him an insider’s appearance of the church, both locally and globally, even as a child. After spending added than 30 years as a Pentecostal minister, Conn now considers himself a post-Pentecostal. Ordained
in three altered denominations – two of them Pentecostal, he writes with no hidden agenda to either criticize or avert the Pentecostal faith. “People accept generally asked me if my canon afflicted over the years to could cause me to leave one abbey and accessory with another. I acknowledgment that my canon has not afflicted so abundant as it has expanded” explains Conn. “I accept apparent that God is abundant bigger than any one abbey body. The God I knew as a adolescent lived in a tiny box. The bigger I get to apperceive Him, the added I apprehend that God is far greater than my bound apperception can comprehend.”
Recently retired and with abundant time anesthetized to accord bright perspective, Conn had two audiences in apperception if he wrote the book. “One accumulation is those who either are or accept been Pentecostal. Many of these accept already told me that the book was ameliorative for them because they accept suffered beneath the abuses of legalism” explains Conn. “My added admirers is those who apperceive little of Classical Pentecostalism, including my own grandchildren. I capital to leave a almanac with them of the way things were. Hopefully it will advice them bigger accept their ancestors, and acknowledge added the activity that they now have.” Conn’s recollections are able by conversations with ancestors members, diaries, letters, photos, mementos, and clippings that were kept throughout the years.
J. Stephen Conn has spent 45 years in Christian service. He grew up in Cleveland, Tennessee, advised the basic Vatican of the Pentecost. He became a born-again Christian at the age of 7, and started admonition at age 16. Conn’s different adventure has included burying 12 new churches and confined as a pastor in three altered Evangelical abbey bodies: Church of God, Assemblies of God and Southern Baptist. He has aswell been a bedfellow apostle in 500 bounded churches apery added than a dozen altered denominations. He is an accolade acceptable columnist of 5 books and added than 300 articles, which accept appeared in a ample array of both civil and Christian periodicals. For 15 years Conn was a amalgamated beat page columnist, actualization in 60 newspapers throughout the United States. Recently retired, Conn now devotes his time to autograph and guest-speaking. “Growing up Pentecostal” can be purchased at online bookstores. For added advice go to www.growinguppentecostal.com
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