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Pentecostal Evangel & National Pride, 9/11/15

Friday, September 11th, 2009

“When one comes into that higher kingdom and becomes a citizen of the ‘holy nation’ (1 Peter 2:9), the things that pertain to earth should forever lose their hold, even that natural love for the nation where one happened to be born, and loyalty to the new King should swallow up all other loyalties…. National pride, like every other form of pride, is abomination in the sight of God. And pride of race must be one of the all things that pass away when one becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus….”

-Stanley H. Frodsham, “Our Heavenly Citizenship,” The Weekly [Pentecostal] Evangel, 11 September 1915, page 3.

Frodsham served as General Secretary of the Assemblies of God (1916), Missionary Treasurer (1917-1921), and as editor of all Assemblies of God publications for almost 30 years (1921-1928;1929-1949).