Part 2:Growing Up In The U.P.C.I (United Pentecostal Church International)

Cultish

Jeff Durbin

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, God, Theology, Jesus, Cult, Apologia, Spirituality, Apologia Studios, Spiritual, Cults

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this final segment, we continue our discussion with Jennifer Brewer (the author of "Free: From Legalism to Grace Breaking Out of the United Pentecostal Church"). ⠀ We elaborate on her turning point within the UPCI (United Pentecostal Church International). ⠀ Was it the strict standards of "Holiness" that were her breaking point? Or, was it something else altogether that caused Jennifer to question the UPCI? ⠀ Better yet, what happens to a person when they leave an organization that their whole life & identity is wrapped up in? Time in to find out!

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0:00.0	My name is Eddie and I was in a call.
0:09.2	Planet Earth about to be recycled.
0:12.5	Your only chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us.
0:19.2	It started as an effort by a charismatic creature to build a new society, but it ended
0:23.8	with a tragic death of more than 900 people.
0:26.8	Please, for God's sake, let's get on with it.
0:29.6	We've lived, there's no other people's lived and loved.
0:33.2	We've had as much of this world as you're going to get.
0:35.4	Let's just be done with it.
0:36.9	Let's be done with the agony of it.
0:38.9	It's the revolutionary suicide.
0:40.9	It does not stop destructive suicide.
0:42.9	The little pain for this, they brought this upon us.
0:50.4	You're an occult, I love you and I want you out of it and with Christ.
0:55.0	But you're...
0:56.0	You're going to call a group occult, or your Bible.
1:04.6	I do, very well.
1:06.6	You better believe I do.
1:08.3	You show us.
1:09.3	Well, I'll answer this question categorically right now.
1:13.5	When I called you a non-Christian cult, I didn't originate the category.
1:18.0	The category came about through the assemblies of God and the Pentecostal churches, which
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