This brought me joy to read. My first years in Christ I went to a church that didn’t preach holiness. I did receive the Holy Spirit while going there, speaking in tongues. I got conviction of holiness right away and began to change, just by the Spirit within me. I looked and lived like a Holiness Pentecostal. However, since it wasn’t taught from the pulpit, due to pressure from other friends within the church and the lack of holiness in people I looked as matured, I began to doubt my own experience and dropped some of the holiness I lived by. Then, I began to struggle more and more to feel the presence of God in my life and I struggled to understand why. After some years, I ended up in a holiness Pentecostal church and was so glad to hear the teaching of holiness. Holiness preaching convicts the conscience, and exhorts the will, but also edifies the understanding to be strong against the winds of the devil, while also protects the congregation by establishing guards. All in the Spirit, who works from within the soul and through the preached Word.
This brought me joy to read. My first years in Christ I went to a church that didn’t preach holiness. I did receive the Holy Spirit while going there, speaking in tongues. I got conviction of holiness right away and began to change, just by the Spirit within me. I looked and lived like a Holiness Pentecostal. However, since it wasn’t taught from the pulpit, due to pressure from other friends within the church and the lack of holiness in people I looked as matured, I began to doubt my own experience and dropped some of the holiness I lived by. Then, I began to struggle more and more to feel the presence of God in my life and I struggled to understand why. After some years, I ended up in a holiness Pentecostal church and was so glad to hear the teaching of holiness. Holiness preaching convicts the conscience, and exhorts the will, but also edifies the understanding to be strong against the winds of the devil, while also protects the congregation by establishing guards. All in the Spirit, who works from within the soul and through the preached Word.