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Originally Posted by Maple Leaf
Here is Steadfast's original post.
Steadfast may be a misguided standard keeping conservative, but:
- he didn't say anything about homsexuals shacking up, and
- he didn't say anything about UPC anythings shacking up.
If Steadfast said it happened, I believe it happened.
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Friends... I can attest to the fact that some issues are almost pushing some of these brethren into these actions. Let me tell you how I see it from my perspective.
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The context that Steadfast creates here is a discussion of how there are "issues" that are "almost pushing" the Tulsa men out. What are the men being "pushed out" from? A bowling league? No, the UPC. His concerns are very narrowly aimed at the UPC, though they would be just as alarming if they were aimed at any other Apostolic body.
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Yet, I've seen young people walk out of my Church to shack up with young men in other so called 'Apostolic' Churches... without ever 'backsliding'!
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This is the statement that until Steadfast cleared it up, everyone thought involved "homosexual" "shacking up." But sin is sin, so the accusation remains. Are there UPC churches allowing this kind of behavior?
Like I said before, I obviously can't know everything about every church everywhere, but does this characterize the UPC in Texas?
Maple Leaf, do you really believe that right now there is a UPC pastor in Texas who openly allows a woman from Steadfast's church to minister on the platform with full knowledge that she is "shacking up with young men?" That was the implication of Steadfast's charge. When pressed about it, he did clarify the sexual orientation involved, but his accusation still stands.
I asked if there weren't "complexities" involved that might help us to understand the situation as being something else. Are we dealing with a rogue Jezebel on the loose in the Texas District? Does this "Jezebel" have the actual support of at least one UPC pastor as Steadfast has charged?
I have risen and said, "No." And for that Steadfast has said that I "lack integrity."
I humbly submit the matter to Brother Steadfast's own conscience.