Word: pentecostal
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...family of God-for the moment doing without reliance on scriptural, credal, ministerial or sacramental orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently in the use of its corporate weapons of the Holy Spirit, the World Council of Churches offers to help the great Church...
...Graham enthusiasts maintain that the results of Graham's other big-city crusades have been tangible, if hard to measure. Says Presbyterian Minister and Author Dan Poling: "What about the entire history of Christianity since St. Peter preached at Pentecost? ... Is not Christianity itself the direct result of evangelism, mass evangelism included...
...living by turning out popular landscapes and portraits, Spencer has devoted the past 22 years to decorating a "chapel in the air" whose dimensions are nothing less than Cookham itself, with the main street for the nave, the River Thames as "a side aisle." Into it, Spencer fits his Pentecost, Cana and "couples" cycles, filling them out with Bruegelesque pictures of everyday life. Nothing is too mundane to leave out. Says Spencer: "All ordinary acts such as the sewing on of a button are religious things and a part of perfection...
Judged from the scene as the board met, it might have been a good-fellowship meeting. In the recreation basement of Milwaukee's Pentecost Lutheran Church last week, seven men sat around a quadrangle of folding banquet tables beneath a large sign that read "Jesus Lives." Gaily colored paper plates dangled from the ceiling. In walked a smiling, stocky young man with crew-cut black hair, coatless and carrying a briefcase. One of the men rose and shook his hand...
...great tradition of American political oratory extends all the way from Patrick Henry to Disk Jockey Lee ("Three-D Lee-D") Dorris, who last week was hired to plug the candidacy of Cayce L. Pentecost for Public Utilities Commissioner of Tennessee. A sample of Dorris' exposition of Pentecost's merits: "Greetings, all you hep cats, gators, lame janes and dream queens. This is Lee D speelin' at you about a real gone cat from Goneville, Cayce L. Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost...