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Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > Pentecostal Churches
Are you ready for a new level of boldness, faith, and authority?
God is inviting you to join a new breed of spiritually-enabled
prophetic warriors who have been given a set of extraordinary powers.
You can expect:
• To flow with revelation, miracles, signs, and wonders like never
before.
• The fullness and power of God to work through you and your family’s
life.
• To receive new thoughts, plans, ideas, creativity and fresh
anointings.
• To speak into people’s lives with a love and a warrior edge that
burns away
pain and delivers them into freedom.
• To prophesy and release a successful and prosperous reality to
individuals,
cities and nations.
Growing up in Northern Ireland, prophet Emma Stark was raised in an
environment that cultivated boldness and a no-nonsense approach to the
prophetic. Now, through heart-warming, shocking and funny real-life
stories and practical activations, she releases an impartation of faith
and encouragement that will propel you to go beyond your fears and into
your wildest expectations and dreams of being a bold truth-teller.
Are you ready to be weaponized by Heaven?
In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with
predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style
of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now
as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at its core
the idea of "radical inclusivity" the powerful assertion that
everyone, no matter how seemingly flawed or corrupted, has holiness
within. Whether you are LGBT, have HIV/AIDS, have been in prison,
abuse drugs or alcohol, are homeless, or are otherwise compromised
and marginalized, TFAM tells its people, you are one of God's
creations. In Filled with the Spirit, Ellen Lewin gives us a deeply
empathetic ethnography of the worship and community central to
TFAM, telling the story of how the doctrine of radical inclusivity
has expanded beyond those it originally sought to serve to
encompass people of all races, genders, sexualities, and religious
backgrounds. Lewin examines the seemingly paradoxical relationship
between TFAM and traditional black churches, focusing on how
congregations and individual members reclaim the worship practices
of these churches and simultaneously challenge their authority. The
book looks closely at how TFAM worship is legitimated and enhanced
by its use of gospel music and considers the images of food and
African American culture that are central to liturgical imagery, as
well as how understandings of personal authenticity tie into the
desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Throughout, Lewin takes
up what has been mostly missing from our discussions of race,
gender, and sexuality--close attention to spirituality and faith.
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