[TruthTalk] Saved -- Salvation -- and the pigpen

[Judy Taylor]

JD writes: Judy, within the next couple of years  I will complete yet another graduate degree and do so in an Assembly of God school  (not exactly a centre of liberal and neo-liberal thought).  My point?   I am not one who sluf's through bible study in  his house slippers and soft pink robe.    I work at my Bible study  --  and I will say that I suspect that I spend considerable more time in study than you.   So I challenge you to a "study competion."   We leave the personals alone and  compare bible verses, word studies (Strongs or whoever) and personal comments.  In the end, we may see each other in a far different light than at present.    Is Izzy the one in the slippers and "soft pink robe" JD? because I don't have one like that...    It's not the time one spends or what one is wearing at the time or how many certificates they have accumulated.  It's the heart attitude that matters to God.  Why do you need another degree and why from the Assemblies?  There has been as much mess in that group as any other.  Remember?  Off the top of my head I recall TBN, PTL, The Bakkers, Swaggart, Branham, Jessica Hahn and if I worked at it many more.    The Assemblies official teaching is (unless they have changed)  that someone who says they belong to Christ can not have a demon.  The demons just love it because this permits them to come and go as they please and they have a great time at Church with the Assemblies.  jt