User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Pillar of Fire Church

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The Pillar of Fire Church is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and has a congregation in Zarephath, New Jersey. It was established in 1901 in Denver, Colorado as the Methodist Pentecostal Church. The Pillar of Fire name comes from Exodus 13:21-22 which states: "By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people." The church's theological position is self described as Wesleyan-Arminian. There are, as of 2006, six congregations in the United States, two colleges, missions in six other countries, and three radio stations.

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[edit] Beliefs

Pillar of Fire, November 25, 1914
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Pillar of Fire, November 25, 1914
  • I. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
  • II. We believe in one God, maker and preserver of all things, existing in three equal persons -- the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
  • III. We believe in the essential deity of Jesus Christ our Lord, and in His physical resurrection from the dead.
  • IV. We believe that the Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory with the Father and the Son, very eternal God.
  • V. We believe in the fall of man and the universal depravity of the human race, and in the guilty and lost condition of all people everywhere outside Christ.
  • VI. We believe in "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."
  • VII. We believe in justification by faith and in Christian perfection, or entire sanctification, as a second definite work of grace.
  • VIII. We believe in the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body.
  • IX. We believe in the premillennial return of Christ.

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[edit] Liberia

The Pillar of Fire Church in Liberia was established by John Potee (1896-1969), who was born near Cess, Liberia. He joined the British Merchant Navy, and around 1941 while in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he became religiously inspired. A friend told him of the Pillar of Fire Church and he contacted Alma Bridwell White in the United States. He was given permission to establish a Pillar of Fire Church in Liberia.

[edit] India

The Pillar of Fire Church in India originated in 1985. Joseph Raju became a convert to the Pillar of Fire Church and establish a congregation in India. After meeting Bishop Wilbur S. Konkel, Joseph Raju and his father, John Raju, were given permission to establish the Pillar of Fire Church in Vijayawada, south east India. Azariah Korabandi joined the Pillar of Fire congregation in India and was appointed overseer.

[edit] Bible

  • Exodus 13:21-22. By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
  • Exodus 14:24. During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
  • Numbers 14:14. And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, O LORD, are with these people and that you, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
  • Nehemiah 9:12. By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.
  • Nehemiah 9:19. "Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. By day the pillar of cloud did not cease to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.

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[edit] Selected coverage in the New York Times

  • New York Times; June 27, 1946; page 21. "Bound Brook, New Jersey; June 26, 1937 (AP) Bishop Alma White, founder of the Pillar of Fire Church and author of thirty-five religious tracts and some 200 hymns, died here today at the headquarters of the religious group at near-by Zarephath. Her age was 84."
  • New York Times; November 6, 1946; "Ray Bridwell White; Pillar of Fire Church Leader, Son of Late Bishop, Dies."
  • New York Times; September 18, 1981; "Bishop Arthur White, 92, Dies; Headed Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop Arthur K. White, president and general superintendent of the Pillar of Fire Church in Zarephath, New Jersey, died Monday at his home in Zarephath. He was 92 years old."
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