Henry Clay Morrison and the Global Holiness Movement

Most denominations in the holiness tradition are unaware of the way the holiness movement impacted global Christianity. Dr. Oconer gives a helpful analysis of Henry Clay Morrison’s World Tour of Evangelism which is indicative of forgotten aspects of the holiness movement.

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Andy Miller III: But those of you who are interested in the western holiness tradition, are going to be fascinated i'm telling you fascinated by this subject today.

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Andy Miller III: All right, I am excited to welcome in to the podcast and more to story podcast Dr Luther o'connor who serves as the global wesley's theology professor at.

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Andy Miller III: asbury theological seminary, particularly in asbury global, which means that it's a campus that's connected to have not just their campus and wilmore but all of their extension sites around the country, and maybe at some point around the world Luther welcome to podcast.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, thank you Andy thanks for having me in this famous five class of yours.

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Luther Oconer: So uh yeah so and i'm glad to be here and.

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Luther Oconer: And with a you know our conversation particularly.

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Luther Oconer: On the topic that you asked me to talk about.

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Andy Miller III: yeah we're going to get there just said before we.

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Andy Miller III: can be i've been so impressed and thankful for just a week just knowing each other, even in this year we served on a committee together at the faith.

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Andy Miller III: Once for all delivered, we, the next methodism concept that was a really exciting thing and then we were at a conference together, where we both speaking and i'm just like i'm like man, how did I not know this guy so.

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Andy Miller III: i'm really thankful to get a chance to share but tell tell some folks just briefly about you and how god's i've been at work in your life and even your your calling to serve as Professor and scholar.

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Luther Oconer: Oh yes, i'm currently a professor at the has really theological seminary I just joined the Faculty just last year.

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Luther Oconer: So this is my 10th year of teaching in the spring, you know as a ministry, but prior to that i'd been at united theological seminary for nine years in Dayton Ohio and in fact I just moved here in Orlando Orlando area just less than one.

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Luther Oconer: So we're still we're still have boxes to attack.

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Luther Oconer: yeah but anyway i'm originally from the Philippines I wasn't born and raised there and moved to this country in 2001 when I did my masters at the university and then one bedroom yeah and lattice and New Jersey and then went on to do my PhD there.

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Andy Miller III: Tom joad in there.

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Luther Oconer: I know he was already on the way out when I when I got there, but I got to work with a number of amazing people.

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Luther Oconer: In the.

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Luther Oconer: In the wesleyan studies i'm going to call that cohort that I drew.

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Luther Oconer: And, and so it's been it's been a great journey.

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Luther Oconer: to learn more about Methodist and while I wasn't there, and even to know more about my own heritage as a method is from the Philippines.

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Luther Oconer: yeah yes, yes, I said, did my dissertation, particularly on that.

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Luther Oconer: On that subject matter uh.

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Andy Miller III: yeah was that was it connected to a message, or even the holiness movement.

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Luther Oconer: or yeah it's.

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Luther Oconer: it's it's sort of the intersection between methodism.

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Luther Oconer: A the manifestations of the holiness movement in in mission mission history.

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Luther Oconer: And a little bit of an intersection with pentecostalism.

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Luther Oconer: Pentecostal history, so we have those three going on.

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Luther Oconer: In my study.

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Andy Miller III: Now, a lot of people know like i've had some people on my podcast to.

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Andy Miller III: Talk about what's going on in methodism so I had Keith boy at wc gay.

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Andy Miller III: Recently i'd Robin for a lot of good news.

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Andy Miller III: And there's the significance of what's called the within the United Methodist the central conference is where you are part of the united Methodist church, or just a branch of method is.

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Luther Oconer: A i'm still part of the united Methodist church i'm i'm an ordained elder in the Philippines, because in the Philippines, we did not become autonomous so we're still part of the united Methodist church connection and under the Philippines central conference.

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Luther Oconer: So it started in 18 the method, this is the mothership is couple tricks came to the Philippines late 1898 39 1899.

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Luther Oconer: And that's where methodism started there.

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Luther Oconer: And now we're like I think five or six animal conferences all over the country and 300,000 plus united Methodist.

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Andy Miller III: In the fellow here that 300,000 plus united Methodist in the Philippines.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, wow that is amazing and and so there's a whole system of probably seminaries in schools and.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, there is one, but but no connections with.

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Luther Oconer: With us marine wilmer when we're Kentucky it's just I guess just named after aspiration.

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Luther Oconer: yeah begin with and then a whole number of.

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Luther Oconer: Probably about you know, a dozen colleges, or maybe less than a dozen colleges all over the country.

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Luther Oconer: And and plenty of kindergarten schools.

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Andy Miller III: Okay, this is a I didn't tell you how to ask this question so tell me a little bit like as you've come to United States it's.

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Luther Oconer: 20 years plus yeah.

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Luther Oconer: wow yeah.

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Andy Miller III: So tell me about the compare and contrast methodism between the two.

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Luther Oconer: Oh that's an that's an interesting question because I got to encounter that just right off the BAT.

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Luther Oconer: You know, you know sort of suppress the vote when I when I even when I first came in this is a week before 911 and.

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Luther Oconer: Oh wow and a week or two weeks before that in.

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Luther Oconer: And so the the first Sunday the first Sunday, I went to a united Methodist church with what's nearby the campus subdue.

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Luther Oconer: And, of course, naturally, because i'm united methodists I would go to United Methodist church right, so I went there I attended and and Lo and behold the you know the pastor had I think has a doctorate PhD degree.

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Luther Oconer: Whereas I saw was, you know as as he was speaking I was kinda you know, I was already noticing the differences.

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Luther Oconer: wow with the way he preach the message and it felt like you know it felt I felt like an alien.

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Luther Oconer: And nobody greeted me know what you said hi to me, I went in and I went out and that was it, but I never I never came back.

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Luther Oconer: wow and then I you know, and then a week later, I got in touch with a with a pastor of the vineyard church.

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Luther Oconer: Okay interest on campus and he came and picked me up and then from then on, I started attending a vineyard church.

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Luther Oconer: Because I felt much more at home.

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Luther Oconer: yeah with with the type of worship, that they had at the end, the vineyard church that's the spirituality the the warm.

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Luther Oconer: I felt a much more of a connection there than with the United methodists traits that I went to.

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Luther Oconer: yeah um so yeah so so that's an area that vineyard church for probably about seven years.

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Luther Oconer: But almost in in and out because I was also serving another church.

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Luther Oconer: A non denominational denominational church leader and as a youth pastor.

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Luther Oconer: But I was always been connected with with that being your church more than I was connected with the United vested.

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Luther Oconer: Interest, so you have to fire me yeah.

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Andy Miller III: As I visited, you know as we've come to in Jackson area visiting other churches to see what's going on, I i've been interesting like the one of the most Wesley and messages that i've heard as come at a charismatic church.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, yes, exactly, and that kinda you know that kind of made me realize that in the United States in the Philippines, we were more charismatic Okay, we were more charismatic Pentecostal leaning.

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Luther Oconer: And you know whether this.

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Luther Oconer: In the US.

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Luther Oconer: But, of course, as you know, as my knowledge of the United States in the US kind of expanded and more people I realized that there, there were pockets.

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Luther Oconer: Of the charismatic expressions also united Madison in the US and so just so happened that the ones that i've encountered when I was in New Jersey weren't like that.

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Luther Oconer: And then, when we.

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Luther Oconer: carry a.

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Luther Oconer: medic.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, mean it doesn't mean like emphasizing healing speaking in tongues or just kind of an awareness of the spirit.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, more of the awareness of spirit and the worship style, particularly with you know praise and worship.

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Luther Oconer: praise and worship, music and, of course, the language of the spirit, you know, like listen the in in the in the language.

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Luther Oconer: Of the Church, you can hear people talking about the Holy Spirit the spiritual life so we get that a lot in the in the Philippines.

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Luther Oconer: yeah and partly because of that history as well, so i'm gonna probably you know get a chance to talk more about.

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Andy Miller III: Your research is yes that's why I love.

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Andy Miller III: I love it when our research interests or writing or preaching truly is can connected to our life now, before we go too much further, I do want to mention i'm not seeing your screen.

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Andy Miller III: Your screen is frozen, but which might be okay it's and people on YouTube we might have to deal with me if you're looking for a movement but yeah let's try and start it.

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Luther Oconer: There you go.

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Luther Oconer: Okay.

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Andy Miller III: Okay, so this is interesting to your dissertation.

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Andy Miller III: was on holiness holiness movement in the Philippines.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, that then gave you an avenue to think of a very particular event of a key holiness movement leave your Henry clay.

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Luther Oconer: More actually yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Who is the founder of asbury seminary it fascinating that you're there, of course, and then also the was the President of as very college at that time, but.

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Luther Oconer: You know.

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Andy Miller III: People might not know they might know him for that, but this you have, this is a gigantic big your head spokesperson of this theological perspective in United that perspective behind a magazine called the Pentecostal Harold.

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Andy Miller III: yeah you you found something very interesting.

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Andy Miller III: About I had heard about this about his world tour of evangelism but talk to me about what interested you in that tour.

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Luther Oconer: yeah because first person for mothers, because it's it's something that kind of you know I doing my research for my dissertation I i've kind of briefly intersected with that.

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Luther Oconer: With Henry clay Morris and particularly his store because he went to the Philippines aspiring tour but, but he wasn't in the Philippines, for only a few days, but um but his visit their made quiet I didn't quite quick quite a quite an impact.

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Luther Oconer: In methodism in the Philippines.

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Luther Oconer: You know the story, I would say, one of our story one apart foremost for you and my list in the Philippines, our first the first method is Filipino math is a bishop.

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Luther Oconer: I would make this name is Denise Alejandro he went last year as well, but he made the claim that.

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Luther Oconer: that's how that morrison's visits in the Philippines among the mothers in the Philippines made Holiness the bird fly.

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Luther Oconer: A worldwide Second World War second and beyond.

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Luther Oconer: So that's what kind of caught my attention so that's why I look into that.

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Luther Oconer: And and, later on, there was this.

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Luther Oconer: There was this opportunity at a conference I honestly I ar to present something on the intersections between the holiness movement and pentecostalism that's when I started to look more deeply into.

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Luther Oconer: morrison's world tour of evangelists and which kind of allowed me to see much more of that you know to see where he went a different conference he went to how a minister, the message they preach and its impact in those different countries today, you went to a within a span of 11 months.

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Andy Miller III: You highlight.

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Andy Miller III: That is yeah properly call it's not properly a world tour because.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, no maybe.

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Andy Miller III: Like a world.

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Luther Oconer: Where do we go to yes first he went to England.

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Luther Oconer: And and and basically just do that you know just do a tourist touristy stuff.

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Luther Oconer: yeah like a like a pilgrimage top of men of the sites in.

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Andy Miller III: England as well.

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Luther Oconer: yeah you might as well do that and then he went to Palestine, you know the Holy Land and again the touristy stuff but really Those are just a segue in for him to go into India.

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Luther Oconer: In India.

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Luther Oconer: methodism had quite a big presence there.

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Luther Oconer: A particular yes, this was in 19 1910.

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Luther Oconer: yeah yeah yeah he left the US in July 1909.

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Luther Oconer: And then he came back in around June.

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Luther Oconer: yeah until 19 them yeah so but anyway, he he got into India and spent I think five about five weeks in India, particularly in the mission stations of the Methodist episcopal church.

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Luther Oconer: And then, after that went through Rangoon Dallas Burma, or Myanmar today.

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Luther Oconer: And then synced up or the Philippines and then went to and then went to China.

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Luther Oconer: He went to he went to Japan.

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Luther Oconer: And then Korea.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, quite interesting and then what's interesting is you know he he didn't just go to.

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Luther Oconer: visit missionaries from the medicine episcopal church he went to see missionaries in.

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Luther Oconer: From the Methodist episcopal church south.

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Luther Oconer: I always put it this way it's like kind of like the charismatic movement today there's no particular denomination that claims ownership to it, but it just kind of.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, it's interesting to that they think that this this is so connected more periodical is called.

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Andy Miller III: The founder of my movement in the Wesley and the Salvation Army is famous for a song is singing we want another Pentecost.

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Luther Oconer: yeah because that's the day when we say Pentecostal people see it around the static to mean the Pentecostal movement or listen to the modern Pentecostal movement that started in 1906.

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Andy Miller III: West, we are.

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Andy Miller III: Literally saying now pan Wesley and it's particularly with United Methodist quite frankly falling apart, become the new.

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Andy Miller III: Global method until we're thinking like so, for instance, I had your colleague, my friend, Jonathan powers come on talk about the new pan Western him, though, but reclaim morrison was doing all of this.

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Andy Miller III: I always find it interesting that there's still a remnant of the Herald laughter I said it's not not to the same extent you have been studying more than myself.

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Andy Miller III: I realized that the asbury seminary magazine is called the Herald.

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Andy Miller III: Harold, so I think that's that's interesting, but never looks like what it was it united, it was.

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Luther Oconer: yeah I think you're correct and extend to smarten speed were there were a number of papers as well uh you know.

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Luther Oconer: Time and there were a number of folks you know doing their own thing publishing their own papers and and morrison seems pretty awesome Harold was you know, probably would be under top level.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, just like reality.

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Andy Miller III: There might there might have been some problems in the holiness movement out that time tell me about your own experience with this like this type of Pentecostal blessing.

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Luther Oconer: Because you know people would say when I was a drew you know they would tell us you know dissertations are really biographical and and that's really true for myself, because my dissertation wasn't really connected to my own experience to my own quest to understand methodism.

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Luther Oconer: I was an engineer at that time I was in junior engineer working for a up and racing telecommunications company in the in Manila, and I was working there for for three years in that field and Lo and behold, I I got an experience of what I would call a baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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Luther Oconer: In our book of discipline for dissemination of documents, contrary to the doctrine of the united Methodist church because of our pentecostalism.

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Luther Oconer: To kind of find out more about my heritage as a method this and to understand my experience and say because I when I began to do retreats about methodism in England and so all of this accounts of revivals during my time wisely.

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Luther Oconer: and get to the bottom of this and learn more about Wesley learn more learn more about Methodist, and so I did the year after that I was, I was a drew I know finally is no not the year after that I went to seminary percent then after graduating a seminary in the Philippines.

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Luther Oconer: Through and my research question was Okay, if there was this powerful revival during the time of Wesley.

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Luther Oconer: it's almost somewhat connected to all of this main events that we've known for so for so long in the Philippines, but there's, no, no one has attempted to do you see interpretative lengths.

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Luther Oconer: To stay them and so now I got this tool, you know the holiness revivals as my interpretative lengths to understand the history better.

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Andy Miller III: In how it blends with your own party.

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Andy Miller III: yeah I felt like to be me I kind of felt like oh.

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Andy Miller III: But it blends so.

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Andy Miller III: Well, with something that is true and real.

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Andy Miller III: And yes, that's what we emphasize here Wesley biblical seminary is actually we it's a in our faculty manual that once a semester everybody every Professor will testify to god's spirit work in their life.

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Andy Miller III: Then the role of sanctify and grace and not just progressively sanctify us and how that comes in specific moments of crisis and then to call punch students to as jealousy says in scripture a salvation seek it now, and until that that's that's a requirement as me as the.

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Luther Oconer: Second.

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Andy Miller III: is not that it has to like be a turn key result.

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Andy Miller III: Man we emphasize the role of story in that indeed amazingly to discovery more in our research.

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Andy Miller III: Now i'm I one thing I found helpful your paper and this comes out in a book on holiness in Pentecostal studies edited by David bundy and Jordan hammond and I am fascinated by the distinctions you make.

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Luther Oconer: A lot of people don't get.

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Andy Miller III: get this between the Catholic Saint holiness movement, the radical holiness movement and Wesley and holiness movement.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, can you help me understand those distinctions.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, beginning with let's begin with the wesleyan holiness movement or less Wesley and Holland expression that would be, you know that would be the classic Wesley understanding.

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Luther Oconer: You know that's that would be will usually call eradication is because in Wesley We find this you know in this understanding of Holiness, who is when he talks about entire sanctification of the possibility of the eradication of the sinful nature.

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Luther Oconer: So what we see in worse is this optimism optimism of grace the possibility that the sinful nature can be can be totally overcome again, partly because of this new mythology he.

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Luther Oconer: You know his soccer geology is understanding of salvation is closely linked to his understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit.

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Luther Oconer: So I think so that I think that kind of.

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Luther Oconer: gives you know helps us distinguish methodism from pentecostalism because pentecostalism slowly now when you hear about new mythology it's mostly about the supernatural stuff you know healing and all of that.

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Luther Oconer: But with West the the new mythological stuff is mostly ingrained in his solitary ology.

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Luther Oconer: And that allows you to have more much more optimism there in the possibility of the eradication of a sinful nature, but then you move on to.

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Luther Oconer: You will want to the classic.

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Luther Oconer: yeah the kids classic movement it's much more of a.

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Luther Oconer: it's more of a middle way with when the the wesleyan holiness understanding and the reformed understanding of Holiness, because in the reform understanding.

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Luther Oconer: there's this understanding that you know the sinful nature cannot be overcome, it cannot be eradicated.

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Luther Oconer: You know.

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Luther Oconer: So.

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Andy Miller III: There, so you know lessened like.

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Luther Oconer: Our lesson yes right yeah yes all expressing yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Even though.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, yeah.

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Andy Miller III: yeah exactly not a saint simultaneously Center right.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, yes, and then the list for the Lutheran sense there's this understanding the ones are justified already fully sanctified.

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Luther Oconer: You know.

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Luther Oconer: Right, but then there's also that understanding of sanctification in there, since that you're not going to that that the sinful nature will never be overcome, I listened to reform sense.

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Luther Oconer: And, but then.

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Luther Oconer: You know, but then the Catholic movement seems to be a middle way via media between between that reform, understanding and the eradication understanding in the wesleyan holiness sense.

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Luther Oconer: By see by agreeing or by acknowledging that, yes, sin cannot be cannot be totally you know eradicated, but, but it can be suppressed.

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Andy Miller III: Right right right.

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Luther Oconer: So, so the key words it's not built in the lesson and all that it's eradication in in the Catholic understanding it's about suppression, because, like you're suppressing.

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Luther Oconer: And, and one of the ways I explained the distinction is this illustration used by team stall barn Bishop team stubborn, he was.

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Luther Oconer: One of our early we went through the Bishop who founded the Madison Madison in the Philippines, you know the amazing beings from yeah from India.

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Luther Oconer: And he's amanda bishop, but he was more up as classic.

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Luther Oconer: person okay uh and he wrote a book the tricks of Pentecost we landed here on this book published in 18 8099 is a matter of this vision, but he wrote a book on the church on Pentecost.

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Luther Oconer: Basically, talking about all the rest, but classic Holiness, and then and then he CITES an illustration there, whereby he talks about a farmer.

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Luther Oconer: Having a conversation with another farmer about you know, having we'd seen this garden, you know you know he plans and then we'll turn up and then the the other farmer said.

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Luther Oconer: You know what.

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Luther Oconer: If.

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Luther Oconer: You can actually eradicate.

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Luther Oconer: Those leads if you just.

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Luther Oconer: You know if you pick up the roads pull them out, you know.

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Luther Oconer: And, and you know and never come back and I can like that basically that's kind of shows and Wesley and holiness understand it, but then another guy showed up and said, you know why that's you know that's administration, my friends.

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Luther Oconer: Because if you pull them out they're gonna come back again, you know.

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Luther Oconer: I forgot to mention the guy the guy was talking about.

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Luther Oconer: You know, burning them there you go burning they're not pulling them up burning them yeah burning them so that's the Wesley and harness understanding, but then the third guy comes, and this is the classic guy and he said, you know that's a bad illustration, my friend.

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Luther Oconer: You know, yes, you burn them, but then this and then come back to what motivates my proposition, why did you keep the fire burning.

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Luther Oconer: that's that's a pressure, you know.

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Luther Oconer: Though so that's the basic understanding.

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Luther Oconer: And so, so what you find in the classic move movement is the language you know that that term commonly used as.

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Luther Oconer: You know the abiding life, you know abiding in the spirit the spirit filled life.

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Luther Oconer: To kind of indicate a much more of a.

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Luther Oconer: You know it's like an ongoing thing is to kind of show that you know by being kicked out of the Holy Spirit that's, the only way, you can suppress.

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Luther Oconer: The the sinful nature from manifesting.

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Luther Oconer: In your life, but then it will never disappear as long as your lead.

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Luther Oconer: You will always be there.

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Luther Oconer: But in the wesleyan sense, no, it will it will, it will be arriving here, it will disappear, it will overcome it.

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Luther Oconer: yeah so that's So those are the distinction when investing in holiness and and Catholic and then what about radical holidays radical holiness comes more from the wesleyan stream the wesleyan higher scream.

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Luther Oconer: But then there they give a lot of emphasis on the eradication, they will call hyper eradication is.

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Luther Oconer: OK, you know very the hyper eradication is and then you also add two to two main teachings to them, they believe in divine healing.

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Luther Oconer: Right and pre willing to listen.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, so that's The other factor.

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Luther Oconer: So it's.

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Andy Miller III: pretty much.

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Andy Miller III: In the radical holiness movement is that dispensation pre millennials.

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Andy Miller III: Or is it MAS doric typo.

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Luther Oconer: yeah it's more up dispensation of his biggest biggest it appeared at a time when the specimen sensationalism appeared in the country.

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Luther Oconer: So there were a whole this folks who embrace that.

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Luther Oconer: That understand.

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Luther Oconer: yeah.

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Andy Miller III: They went up for interrupter yeah.

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Luther Oconer: And it comes in different degrees in morrison I don't see a lot of that in this language.

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Luther Oconer: But he wrote a book on you know, on the second company he wrote a book on.

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Luther Oconer: The world's getting worse, he said word get the better the words the words getting worse and you know.

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Luther Oconer: But then his conclusion was the world's getting worse, so that puts them in the Premier League Angeles stream and so, so this rambling and his name it's more about that.

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Luther Oconer: You know it's it's I guess the product of what happened after World War one.

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Luther Oconer: The great war is a lot of.

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Luther Oconer: A lot of evangelicals are used to be much more optimistic about the future became became a millennial this because you know they begin to see that the world was getting worse and worse.

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Luther Oconer: And he didn't have look for if you have World War one going on, you know, a.

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Luther Oconer: And I think that's like the morrison.

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Andy Miller III: founds asbury you know seminary.

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Andy Miller III: yeah 1823 since.

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Andy Miller III: you're years ago, you know from now.

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Luther Oconer: But that's like.

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Andy Miller III: that's it period of history what's happening like you were where we are.

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Andy Miller III: In between World War one and World War Two and that.

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Andy Miller III: yeah dramatically affects what's happening so okay so so but date so they had the radical.

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Andy Miller III: holiness movement.

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Andy Miller III: He always like double down on the replication language.

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Andy Miller III: A little bit surprised to hear you say like it, because even the Wesley and holiness stream.

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Andy Miller III: Not often thinking of them with that language.

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Andy Miller III: Right yes.

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Andy Miller III: But when you said that.

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Andy Miller III: kind of radical holiness movement over.

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Andy Miller III: Over Yes, this is that.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, 3 million.

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Luther Oconer: And healing yeah.

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Luther Oconer: And I think part of that doubling down was also the result of the um the immense popularity of classic you know so they were reacting against classic because they're see oh wow this, this is a direct affront after the call it Martin quality heresy wesleyan heresy the classic movement.

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Luther Oconer: You find that in my article because it a you know, a heresy you know in and and he can avoid the fact that there were students, as somebody.

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Luther Oconer: who hold to the suppression is understanding.

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Luther Oconer: And he would say you know in in first john first john one verse seven it gently that say you know the the blood of Christ.

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Luther Oconer: suppress suppress all sin, but he said cleanses us from all sin method.

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Luther Oconer: So you know, but again it's I think it's part of the reaction against against African and they're finding Catholic manifesting within methodism itself.

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Luther Oconer: And so they tend to push back and so that's why you get the hyper eradication is in them uh.

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Andy Miller III: yeah so this connect.

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Andy Miller III: We could go on for a long time.

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Luther Oconer: Exactly.

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Andy Miller III: really appreciate these distinctions.

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Andy Miller III: So, but we pick up the world tour of.

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Andy Miller III: evangelism so morrison comes.

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Andy Miller III: and brings this.

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Luther Oconer: Different yes.

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Andy Miller III: Active yeah the radical.

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Andy Miller III: holiness movement.

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Andy Miller III: So, like let's let's see if we can tie up like what happened could.

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Andy Miller III: But it's not sorry to have to say, tied up because, like it's lead us to a place where.

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Andy Miller III: good thing happens, we like to see happen here as well.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, exactly exactly yeah because he encountered that, particularly when when he went to India, you know, because by that time you know.

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Luther Oconer: And I wrote a paper on this is also on on under the manifestations of the holiness movement in the madness missions in India and and the conclusion I got was in my conclusion was.

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Luther Oconer: They became more classic in India oh yeah because of their connection with with other denominations mostly you know those coming from the reformed side, and so the way that they were able to kind of unite with a different missions was embrace Catholic and.

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Andy Miller III: And I enjoy.

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Luther Oconer: But, and then by the time by the time cat morrison arrived there in length and then and does his thing revival on the eradication is you know.

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Luther Oconer: And people will start commenting I would see you know comments on on like the Indian witness that's the paper they had in the monasteries in India and what someone said, you know I never saw someone which about you know about the pastor of the possibility of.

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Luther Oconer: places entire sanctification.

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Luther Oconer: There is that eradication of the sinful nature, you know.

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Luther Oconer: It was pouring into them, and this was a Methodist church, you know and so that's I think that was the legacy of morrison it was he tried to bring them back.

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Luther Oconer: On demand it's got the more optimism on.

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Luther Oconer: On that understanding.

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Luther Oconer: Of the possibilities yeah oh yes.

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Luther Oconer: yeah exactly.

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Andy Miller III: The same like pattern keeps coming back and forth.

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Andy Miller III: yeah my own denomination.

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Andy Miller III: A period where we had clear eradication language.

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Andy Miller III: And then, it was taken out.

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Andy Miller III: yeah there's been waves where it's like I don't know if you call it classic understanding, but but but close.

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Andy Miller III: to it and then coming back and forth.

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Andy Miller III: And he's interesting one of the key leaders, was a very good friend, like of of morrison.

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Andy Miller III: Was not Samuel Logan brendel.

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Andy Miller III: Oh, who was murdered this same movement and it came from the Salvation Army.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, I always find it interesting.

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Andy Miller III: interesting way that often get they often get rediscovered.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, hopeful that, like this message, of course, can be connected to our own sense of.

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Luther Oconer: god's exactly work.

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Luther Oconer: yeah yeah yeah for morrison you know I you know he he.

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Luther Oconer: He definitely was moving in the radical and extreme.

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Luther Oconer: But he was more big on the on that eradication.

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Luther Oconer: Well, not so much on the healing I never I never saw anything about him doing healing talking about dealing.

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Luther Oconer: Although you'll find you'll find the accounts of that in the Pentecostal Harold from from people writing to the editor and you know talking about their divine healing experiencing healing.

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Luther Oconer: So I think I guess he allowed them to be published there, but from him personally greetings right into this during that period within the during the world tour and look at you know, a Pentecostal hair 19 1019 1909 1910 1911 I didn't see anything from him.

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Luther Oconer: Talking about a pre millennial is the second coming.

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Luther Oconer: But not not during the tour, it was mostly about eradication yeah but but you'll find a lot of pre millennial hmm later on.

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Luther Oconer: So I think it would be rightly be categorized within the radical radical holiness stream but somehow managed to stay within mainstream methodism.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, yes.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, yes, still had that connection, it was still.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, this.

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Luther Oconer: method it's like figure yes.

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Luther Oconer: we're out there, exactly.

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Luther Oconer: And he goes this crap yeah yeah because it's.

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Luther Oconer: Good again.

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Andy Miller III: model right.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, he's.

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Luther Oconer: he's got the big picture.

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Andy Miller III: He wasn't also it wasn't it He appealed.

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Andy Miller III: To more than just the Holiness.

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Luther Oconer: Movement yeah.

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Andy Miller III: His heel against modernism.

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Andy Miller III: yeah pretty millennial ISM.

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Luther Oconer: Probably noticing improv yes.

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Andy Miller III: Robin way.

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Luther Oconer: In a broader way yeah I mean it, I mean it's interesting he said he was able to operate within mainstream methodism.

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Luther Oconer: But then had a lot of friends in the radical holiness stream.

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Luther Oconer: You know yeah especially folks from god's Bible school which not too far from you know from wilmore yes, of course, it was in Cincinnati.

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Luther Oconer: So you know you with that's where all Ms came from.

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Luther Oconer: oriental missionary society.

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Luther Oconer: And so he's kind of look at us as a friend in that movement.

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Luther Oconer: You know.

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Luther Oconer: it's interesting how I was able to do all of that, you know.

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Luther Oconer: And I mean it's a really he's really a fascinating figure.

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Luther Oconer: And i'm not you know i'm gonna i'm not surprised, why, during his time he was able to.

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Luther Oconer: He was able to kind of revive asbury college.

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Luther Oconer: Right, yes, he was he was in a big mess at that time.

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Luther Oconer: Financially, but you know, he was able to.

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Luther Oconer: kind of.

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Luther Oconer: Alice you know, during his leadership he was able to kind of lead up the school.

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Luther Oconer: Out of financial trouble and then later on, he was able to establish a seminary.

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Luther Oconer: yeah.

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Andy Miller III: I mean all things went both institution.

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Andy Miller III: We if you would not exist without.

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Andy Miller III: yeah his leadership.

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Andy Miller III: Obviously, exactly, if you found it interesting dissertation by Mike long no journalist journalism professor, but he looked at the way that.

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Andy Miller III: He morrison was able to use a Pentecostal.

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Andy Miller III: Harold night a group.

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Andy Miller III: So save the school financially.

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Andy Miller III: Exactly yeah I think that that's.

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Andy Miller III: It was impart.

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Andy Miller III: This bro.

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Andy Miller III: I think my my little summary thought i'll let you give a closing thought that too.

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Andy Miller III: is like this pan Wesley and movement is doesn't necessarily need to be connected to institutions.

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Andy Miller III: yeah at the same time there's there's something going on, but it does need a uniting connection.

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Andy Miller III: yeah I know I don't want to take away from your emphasis of what was able to happen in this world tour, but it was this message.

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Luther Oconer: And secondly.

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Luther Oconer: Exactly closing.

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Andy Miller III: closing comment.

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Luther Oconer: On that, and then I guess.

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Andy Miller III: question for you.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, precisely, you know it's really the message the message that he carried resonated with people.

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Luther Oconer: The message of offered hope.

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Luther Oconer: Yes, you know we're seeing this reality that people experience in their lives, and they want to get out of that reality that that scene.

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Luther Oconer: and Martin offer the way you know that made sense to them.

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Luther Oconer: And it was it resonated with people it resonated with folks from the whole one panelist in connection that are subscribing to a paper you know, obviously they love what he was writing while he was doing.

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Luther Oconer: He was a successful evangelist preaching.

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Luther Oconer: What at the same time, when he went to the went when he went for it world or quote Unquote.

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Luther Oconer: You know the mess, you know this, this is the same thing, the same.

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Luther Oconer: welcoming you the way, how was it Nice was welcome in the US, you know, it was the same the same outpouring of support.

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Luther Oconer: yeah so it was manifested as well in those in those parts of the world, not even an AMA just talking about.

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Luther Oconer: American audience, you know he he preached to Filipino audiences through vermin, you know to Indians.

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Luther Oconer: You know, international folks a business account where pull up you know amazing things happening on the outer and mostly it's not you know you have the mixture of.

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Luther Oconer: Americans Europeans there, particularly in India, but for the most part natives female.

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Luther Oconer: or nationals responding to his message, so I guess I think that's, the key to a successful was this is the message that he carried, and sometimes we tend to not recognize that people tend to look at more on the on the on the outside.

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Luther Oconer: yeah, if you like, and I love that.

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Luther Oconer: And I think that's one of the things that I did when when I did my study is to really recognize if you're going to study, people who are going to study missionaries or personalities look at what they're teaching look at the content, the content.

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Luther Oconer: Because more and more more often or not we ignore those we ignore that you know in our when we do studies on people.

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Luther Oconer: yeah.

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Andy Miller III: So that's great Luther Thank you so.

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Andy Miller III: much for your time you're always ask people in connected this idea I say.

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Andy Miller III: story cuz yeah theological.

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Andy Miller III: yeah there's more than just salvation but they're also more to this story of Luther o'connor than most people know.

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Luther Oconer: Oh yes.

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Luther Oconer: Just just like more than one of the things that attracted me to him, you know, he was 35 police and evangelists and.

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Luther Oconer: yeah and I do Emma Emma Emma I would say, a revivalist as well, I.

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Luther Oconer: am part of the things that I do not only teach in the seminary and not only do R amp D, research and development, so to speak.

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Luther Oconer: But I also.

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Luther Oconer: Particularly in in in the past six years, five or six years, I began.

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Luther Oconer: I began finding myself more in the pulpit preaching doing events.

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Luther Oconer: And also, I started finding myself doing more, a lot of divine healing.

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Luther Oconer: The mind healing workshops.

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Luther Oconer: Not just in my preaching but also.

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Luther Oconer: Because imagine when when when was this probably around 2016 and I recently found myself being invited.

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Luther Oconer: To do divine healing workshops in churches more than I was invited to do workshops on methodism.

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Luther Oconer: yeah the divine healing part you know aspect in my ministry base that you know.

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Luther Oconer: yeah it seems outrageous you know.

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Luther Oconer: didn't seek me out more for that at least prior to the pandemic that was the case.

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Luther Oconer: yeah and, and so I I really find this exciting because.

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Luther Oconer: Because prior to be you know entering the actually the Academy, the academe I was a pastor I was faster in the Church, I was a youth revival less and less what what got me in trouble, by the way.

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Luther Oconer: By the way, about the anyway, you know I thought I was starting in the ministry and then to find myself coming full circle just about five to six years ago.

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Luther Oconer: And one of my, I guess, one of my highlights in my in my ministry was in 2016 when I was invited to the Philippines in the United venture in the Philippines to to be one of the features are to preach at the.

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Luther Oconer: What they would call the revived conference that was in Manila, and there were about 12,000 people they're.

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Luther Oconer: amazed in that.

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Luther Oconer: That stage room and, as I was standing there in front of the of those people, I was really terrified.

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Andy Miller III: But at the same time, I was kind of remind them, you know.

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Luther Oconer: I remind myself, you know you were just writing about revival leads to every viable in this country, you know, a battery saving the.

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Luther Oconer: Bible is same as the wholeness movement in the Philippines and now here you are you're doing are divided one.

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Luther Oconer: wow and you know it's very humbling to think about that you know it's.

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Andy Miller III: it's yeah.

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Luther Oconer: Because I saw my screen, I was kind of seeing myself more as a professor.

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Luther Oconer: right, then, and then suddenly yeah and then suddenly.

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Luther Oconer: being given that opportunity so.

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Luther Oconer: yeah I just thank God for that, where i'm seeing myself now yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Oh, I love you know I when I left I left a local church through lucious.

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Andy Miller III: me and I just been about a year since I did, and I entered the Academy myself and I wondered about that and I just look back and I think I probably preached more.

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Andy Miller III: yeah past year.

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Andy Miller III: yeah.

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Luther Oconer: When I was a local church pastor exactly it's.

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Andy Miller III: amazing how God continues to keep these doors open for the way.

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Luther Oconer: He wants to work.

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Andy Miller III: Through us and i'm so thankful user.

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Andy Miller III: name or how god's using you as you're you're teaching your scholarship and you're preaching and for the way that you're open to spiritual so thanks so much for coming.

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Andy Miller III: On board His story podcast it's a blessing to have you.

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Luther Oconer: thanks again and the taxi Thank you all thanks for having me God bless.