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Originally Posted by CC1
This is a fair description of the situation as I see it also (other than I would not characterize the things he did as "weak", of course!).
However in 1986 once Christ Church left the UPC I imagine by default the district became a little more conservative!
I have seen wedding pictures of Pastor Hardwick and Montelle and Montelle had on earrings. I think he became pastor of CC the same year he got married, about 55 years ago.
First Church (Becton's) is liberal by UPC standards but with important distinctions from Christ Church. At First Church you are free to attend, worship, be fellowshipped, etc without the traditional dress standards BUT you are a second class citizen and not eligible to be on the platform, teach Sunday School,etc.
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I moved in 90 into the Nashville area I visited most of the UPC churches in the area without anyone knowing I was a preacher. I saw plenty of cut hair, amkeup, jewelry, facial hair on men, even one church had a member mowing it's grass with shorts on. So holiness issues were not an issue in the Nashville area UPC churches.