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Re: Christian Life Center Stockton Question
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Originally Posted by Sean
Lifesong, is a church that is receiving folks from CLC steadily that do not want ANY standards preached at them. We have friends and family there. They trash talk CLC members whenever they get a chance. They win disgruntled pentecostals this way. They are as brutal, or even more brutal than their conservative brethren. They dont insist on Jesus name baptism, several have told me. I refuse to attend there....I dont want my hottie wife in pants! I wont even say any more about the junk that spews out of there.
We dont attend anywhere for now, but lifesong is the LAST place I would go around here.
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Wow! Your post doesn't sound biased at all. I have been to their church website earlier today and checked out their doctrinal statement, etc so have a pretty good idea where they stand.
However you will forgive me if I am a bit skeptical about how bad you say they are towards CLC and CLC members. As one who went "charismatic" a few decades ago I know what was said about my family and the exUPC church we were attending. A lot of misconceptions and outright fabrications.
Not saying this has to be the case here but i am very leery when someone makes the kind of strong statements you have made.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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