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Well, I think that in many cases the pastor tries to shield his church as not to upset the balance. I also think that if the garden-variety saint receives a bastardized message that "HEY! the UPC now accepts television", the few who did not own a television would certainly consider it...but maybe not.
I think that if a people are influenced to consider themselves UPC, they hold up the banners and are proud to have that moniker on the front of their church, they need to know and should be interested in what goes on in this "ministerial organization."
It is an interesting concept to think that a pastor could control the amount and content of information that could affect the folks in the church, as though a "what they don't know won't hurt them" mentality and furthermore consider that people are not able to handle the truth or make decisions based on this information.
...but then again, people may not care and that is unfortunate, because it means they are being lead by emotion, to an extent.
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