Comments on: Across the Lines: Charles Parham’s Contribution to the Inter-Racial Character of Early Pentecostalism, by Eddie Hyatt https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/ Journal of Ministry Resources and Theology for Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministries & Leaders Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Rich Palmer https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/#comment-35842 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:52:59 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=543#comment-35842 I am sorry for the sins of our fathers & forefathers…ever since the Garden there has been no perfect person except Jesus. So because of this, the Muslims hate the Christians since the Crusades. Anti-Semites blame the Jews for all the world’s problems since crucifying Jesus. American Indians are upset because we ran them off their land. Earlier days the American citizens dislike the Irish, the Italians…
When do we in the body of Christ stand up and forgive those who have done wrong & love them unconditionally. the Apostle Paul was a murderer and the “chiefest of sinners”. yet God forgave him and called him to ministry. the saints forgave him… Paul himself forgave himself and pressed forward (Phil 3:10) and did not look back. He saw what was done for him at the Cross & the resurrection & ascension and wrote instructing us to do likewise. Unity as Jesus prayed in John 17 will only come as we love & serve others unconditionally.

]]> By: Tonya Battle https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/#comment-35818 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 02:06:28 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=543#comment-35818 Once again someone will always try to justify a persons racist behavior. Parham’s racist attitude cannot be justified. No matter the culture and time in history, if he had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit leading and guiding him into all truth then he well knew that his actions were wrong. We make moral and ethical decisions daily, but as a Christian those decisions should be based in light of the scriptures. An ethic is what a person ought to do, a moral is what a person actually does. Every person that has ever committed a racial act or participated in any way was fully aware of their wrong doing. Racism was wrong in the Jim Crowe era and it is wrong today, but the views and perceptions will always be determined by the effects it had on that person and their ancestors. Racism is still alive and strong today, but most people try to be politically correct and know and understand they can suffer consequences at the hands of the victim more so than back in the Jim Crowe era. I truly believe that anyone that will advocate and justify another persons racist behavior is because deep down in the recesses of their souls they a racist tendencies as well.

]]> By: David Moore https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/#comment-35815 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 07:06:27 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=543#comment-35815 Jesus teaches me to forgive. Please don’t make it harder to forgive by explaining away the offenses. Corporate sin is exponentially more injurious than personal.

Parham was “no crusader for civil rights”… so what is the message of Jesus worth without humanity? Why even claim to represent him. How does this diminish the people who actually were crusaders for civil rights.

]]> By: Eddie L. Hyatt https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/#comment-35811 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 03:36:19 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=543#comment-35811 In response to a criticism that I “glossed over the evidence” in the above article, I am not aware of any evidence that was “glossed over.” Very often the problem is that a person in history is judged, not in the context of their own culture and time, but in the context of their critic’s culture and time. If we judge Parham in the context of where American society is today on race, then we could call him a racist. But if we judge Parham in the context of his time when segregation and Jim Crow was a part of the American social fabric, then Parham is seen as acting beyond his time, especially when he ministered in the South. For example, he invited a black woman, his friend Lucy Farrow, to preach in a white campmeeting in Houston, TX in 1906, something most of the participants probably had probably never seen or experienced. Parham’s daughter-in-law, Pauline Parham, who knew him personally, told me that Parham had good relations with the black community in his hometown of Baxter Springs, Kansas and often preached in the black holiness church there. Parham’s granddaughter told me that she was never aware of any racism growing up in the Parham family. There is other evidence included in the above article that demonstrate that it is the evidence of Parham’s racial openness that is being “glossed over” by some.

]]> By: Chris Mulimba https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/#comment-35349 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:14:30 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=543#comment-35349 I love Church history and in particular pentecostalism

]]> By: Chris Mulimba https://pneumareview.com/across-the-lines-charles-parhams-contribution-to-the-inter-racial-character-of-early-pentecostalism/#comment-286 Sat, 09 Nov 2013 09:40:42 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=543#comment-286 I love Church history and in particular pentecostalism

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