Tongues of Fire/ Worshippers emit messages they can't put into words

From: The Gazette | Date: May 18, 2002| Author: Eric Gorski; The Gazette | Copyright information

"How many of you have had the devil jump on you in your sleep?" the preacher asks. A murmur ripples across the hall, and hands shoot up. The Rev. Ron Jones talks about how the devil had him in a headlock one night. "The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus," Jones cried that night. The devil lost his grip, he says. The devil isn't scared of "kumbaya" churches, "where I'm OK, you're OK, we're all OK," Jones says. The devil feels threatened by churches with Holy Ghost-filled people. The devil, he...

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