Rings with a twist

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> From: Mark Bassett <mbasset@iconn.net>
> To: higher-fire@prairienet.org
> Subject: Re: Rings with a twist
> Date: Thursday, August 08, 1996 6:47 AM
> 
> On Thu, 8 Aug 1996 06:25:53 PST, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >>It is not ANY district board's business or right to violate the
> >>fundimental doctine by imposings its will on a pastor or church other
> >>than as relates to concurance with articles of faith, and personal
> >>morality for which he is accountable.
> 
> >>I think you are misinformed as to the operation of church governemt.
> 
> >Fundamental Doctrine?  I thought the "fundamental doctrine" was that we
> >believe in Jesus name baptism? 
> 
> "The basic and fundamental doctrine of <one good organization> shall
> be the Bible standard of full salvation, which is repentance, baptism
> in water by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the
> remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial
> sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
> 
> [THIS FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH WAS IN FOCUS]
> 
> We shall endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit until we all come
> into the unity of the faith, at the same time admonishing brethren
> that they should not contend for their different views to the disunity
> of the body."
>
I was always told that paragraph was in specific reference to trinitarian
doctrine that was still in some of the churches when the two previous
church organizations (pajc and ???) came together.  This was to reinforce
that the preceding paragraph was indeed "our" doctrine.  This didn't work
out as expected, resulting in the Assemblies of God.
 
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