Sunday, January 18, 2015

Which Reminds Me

Someone was saying that they will be sending all their money to support Dr. Heidi's ministry. I noticed that she landed in Africa. So that's nice. You may do whatever you want with your money in this free country.

As for me, I doubt that I would ever send a dime to her mainly because I do not think that she is with the Assemblies of God. She might be UPC or similar Pentecostal group. Perhaps Heidi could rename herself the great UPC Hope and make that point abundantly clear. However, I am from the Assemblies of God church denomination which has hundreds of missionaries out there on the field doing good things for God. I cannot even afford to support all the hundreds of AG missionaries, much less extend a dime to the UPC and the PH and other groups. It is not like I have any ecumenical project in mind at this time nor unlimited riches to fund all of these ministry projects that I did not ask for. Nobody wants to pick an argument with the UPC people when they are doing good things for the poor but, well, our AG programs are also doing many good things for the poor. However, I will say that the name United Pentecostal Church is a bit misleading because it tends to give the impression of that they contain the unity of all Pentecostals when actually there are some significant differences among the various groups in terms of doctrines and beliefs. It wasn't like that a hundred years ago but we cannot go backwards in time and pretend that all of those doctrinal squabbles didn't happen.