Taught that there are two judgements of the dead: one, temporary judgement immediately after death to beatitude or punishment He asks nothing of you except to believeĪnd you’ll be saved through grace.’ Few other Orthodox preachers of the day talked about a one-time conversion in this way andįew insisted that people decide to follow Jesus lest an unexpected death might send them to hell. Saved or unsaved? Regardless, the Saviour could come again today or tomorrow. ‘And so the question is: how will you face the end? Need not despair, he wrote, because Jesus Christ died for our sins. Human suffering is a result of sin’s impact on the world, and that every one of his readers was a sinner. Popescu’s pamphlet How to Bring Souls to Christ (1924) explained that Popescu’s preaching emphasized the urgency of personalīy faith. His sermonsĪttracted large numbers of people who flocked to hear him preach. ![]() Nest had been his father-in-law’s church and Popescu became parish priest after the latter’s death. ![]() The parish priest there was Teodor Popescu. ![]() Most disputed renewal movements of the 1920s took place at St Stefan’s Church in Bucharest, known as the Stork’s
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