This documentary, starting at 20:33, plays a recording in which Jerry Lee Lewis expressed his concern about the music he was playing, that it was the Devil’s music.He also shared some of his thoughts about salvation. He doesn’t call it that. He sounded like the kind of man it was difficult to have a conversation with even back then when he was young. I believe Jerry Lee Lewis. His cousin Jimmy Swaggart was in the A/G. I’m not sure about Jerry Lee. What do you think about his soteriology? Was this typical of COG beliefs in that era as well________________
a recent documentary had Lewis and Swaggart as oneness Pentecostal________________
They were both raised AG________________
Where is the link to the video________________
Not only were they raised AG
They both went to our main Bible College CBC (Central Bible College) of Springfield, Mo., until Jerry Lee got kicked out. He actually started playing the piano in chapel and got carried away and unbuttoned his shirt and took it off and started swinging it around. That was the straw that broke the camels back and out he was. Jimmy tried for years to bring him back into the fold but Jerry Lee never got over it as far as I know. He might have gotten right with God on his own but it’s doubtful. My very good friend was a childhood friend who was raised with them, she is a missionary from Baton Rouge and is a friend also of Mickey Gillie their cousin. She has told us many stories of the days at CBC with Jimmy etc.
I preached a two-week revival in Ferriday, LA in about 1959 at the Church of God. Jerry Lee’s parents and sister lived directly across the street from the church. His parents attended practically every one of the services. David Beatty’s parents also lived on the same street________________
Sorry about that. I believe this full video is the conversation. Forget about the minute marker.www.youtube.com/watch?v=fto2NZsPJ7E________________
Here is a 1980 interview between Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Lee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSfBDiegVU________________
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Holiness or Hell is surely the truth today as much as it has ever been. Poor ol’ Jerry Lee simply decided to walk away from what he knew to be right. My own rather voracious study of the Pentecostal movement has indicated that the message, without holiness no one shall see God and blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God, was most definitely and quite emphatically believed by virtually all Pentecostals at least until the 1970s. I didn’t hear where Jerry Lee had a concept of grace from that conversation, grace to be saved, or grace to overcome sin________________
Holiness or Hell is surely the truth today as much as it has ever been. Poor ol’ Jerry Lee simply decided to walk away from what he knew to be right. My own rather voracious study of the Pentecostal movement has indicated that the message, without holiness no one shall see God and blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God, was most definitely and quite emphatically believed by virtually all Pentecostals at least until the 1970s. I didn’t hear where Jerry Lee had a concept of grace from that conversation, grace to be saved, or grace to overcome sin.
True, but this was also combined with a conviction that he couldn’t perform popular music in a way that was glorifying to God. That is what was so sad. He seemed to have a legalistic mindset that led him to believe the career he had chosen was of the Devil, yet chose it anyway. He may have had to write and do things differently.What is referred to as ‘Holliness’ can be a list of man-made rules________________
Yes, definitely. We fundamentals have had a very hard time of seeing, preaching and explaining Holiness. ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Interesting interview. Jerry Lee said no one had ever whoopped him than Jimmy Swaggart________________