[Magdalen] Church as Personality Billy Graham

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Jay Weigel

>Jim, I can tell you've never been part of a non-denom....they do so have
>dragon ladies! They are everywhere! In non-denoms they cluster around the
>pastor's wife.

I don’t dispute that in any non-dom that has reached a certain point of maturity 
(marketing curve?). But the Bible School graduate starting from scratch doesn't 
have them (yet). And if they should get them early enough to interfere with 
enough growth to support himself and his family, he's as likely to pull up 
stakes and move on as fight the good fight.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie






On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> IFSG was right there with Church of the Nazarene in terms of female
> clergy. They were really the kick starters. Some of the African-American
> groups also, which is one thing that led to the split in the Pentecostal
> movement and the parallel development of the church of God in Christ (AA)
> and the Assembly of God (white).
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>>
>>  My personal favorite among all these personalities is Aimee Semple
>>> Mcpherson,
>>> founded of the Four Square Gospel Tabernacles.  At least churches  of
>>> that
>>> denomination still exist.
>>>
>>
>> Their Los Angeles Temple is equidistant between the Episcopal Church
>> Center and Jon +Bruno's old restaurant on Sunset Blvd.
>>
>> It was distinguished by having two towers supporting a Hammock Antenna
>> for their radio broadcasts. I believe they ran KRKD.
>>
>> There was  FourSquare Gospel congregation in Bellefonte PA -- they bought
>> 30 minutes every Sunday for their worship service. The Pastor was a woman
>> -- and was there at least when I started Penn State. in 1970. It would seem
>> the FourSquare people were way ahead of us latecomers on women clergy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim Guthrie
>>
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