Which Reminds Me

The appearance of all these Methodist mainliners now reminds me of something that was said by someone about how the Methodists wish to colonize Pentecostals. It is true that Pentecostals are deeply rooted in Methodist thought and practice. However, we Pentecostals have our own denominations now and have no use for the Mainliners who are trying to trick us into subordinatioin to Methodism. We have our own Pentecostal churches now where the preaching of the gospel is still the primary mission and has not yet been subordinated to the humanistic agenda that has already long since derailed the original Methodist structures. ORU has brought in all these Methodist Political Junkies to try to set themselves up as the central authority over all Pentecostals but I personally am neither from Oklahoma nor an alumnus of ORU so they really have nothing on me. They only wish I was the slave property of the creepy Roberts family and their nasty dog Pam. True, distant cousins of ours live in Oklahoma and have actually left Pentecostalism and returned to Methodist Mainlineism but we don't really communicate with them that much and are not interested in aligning ourselves with their anti-Pentecostal philosophy. You see, our great-grandparents who were missionaries in China were of the earliest type of Pentecostal which are abhorred by the sipping saints of today, and yet the Pentecostals accomplished so much even without the advantages of Methodism. Efforts to discredit the early Pentecostals have been greatly exaggerated. Don't we all have our problems and our battles with legalism in every age? The Methodist Mainline churches nowadays are empty shells in need of people to pay the power bills which they must pay or shut down and sell out. They wish us to help them revive their churches but really I don't see how I could possibly help them in such an  impoverished and colonial existence. Thus, we see how Mainliners continue to shoot themselves in the foot so to speak. I am not your foot so stop shooting at me.