I once belonged to denominations because I felt I had been jilted by my local congregation because of the lack of interest I recieved from the preacher when trying to discuss becoming a Christian with someone who I knew who went to a penecostal church and that person's freind. The response I got from the minister, "well, let's not sit both of these fellas down to talk about the Bible because I've found that when you have more than one person in the room for a bible study it degernerates into an arguement." This happened at an early age of 18, and as a result I felt pressured from this penecostal freind and the guy he hung around with to listen to them and did not feel I could go to anyone at the congregation I attended to help me. I didn't feel I had the support so caved into the penecostal doctrine and became a part of the denominational world to make freinds. Now that I'm older and rededicated my life back to the Church, I am taking the time to search the scripture with more earnest and am amazed at where I was and what I was duped into. I want to share some excerpts from a local weekly news forum in my hometown which is predominately penecostal when the subject of "How do I get to Heaven?" came up in the religous section section of the forum. Truely amazing because I too had been duped into believing like they had, but the difference was i was not so inbedded with thier doctrine so it didn't take long for me to return to the Church after paing attention, and ACTUALLY looking at God's word and what it says about salvation. During my younger years when I sought approval to gain freinds in these denominations, I just went by what was told to me and never really sought scriptures out for myself. man, what a difference becoming a student of the bible has made for me. Check out these qoutes....