Pentecostal Manifesto

There was a time when the terms "Pentecostal", "Holiness", "Holy Roller", and "Old Fashioned" held a stigma. Only the truly committed would call themselves such. Just to be called a "Pentecostal" at one time put a black mark beside your name in the community. The lazy, backslid, lukewarm religious crowd would never allow themselves to be called by any of those names, much less refer to themselves as such. Today things are changing. There is a new breed of neo-pentecostals that love to refer to themselves by the old terms. They boldly refer to themselves as "Old Fashioned Holy Ghost & Fire Pentecostals" and even say that they are "Holiness", yet when you spend time around them you discover that their message is nothing more than a revamped "word of faith" message preached with a bit more enthusiasm. Their lifestyle is definitely not holiness.