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Re: Is the UPC a Den of Incest (Growth Within)?
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Originally Posted by jediwill83
the danger with spiritual inbreeding is that you lose the need for the milk because you get the feeling that you are so spiritually advanced that you dont need it. the preaching is formatted to 5th or 6th generations looking for that new DEEPER understanding but on the same token we preach a gospel that has lost its simplicity. we seek only for the meat now not needing the milk and in doing so lost our relevence to a dying world.
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That can be a two-edged sword. Churches that preach the same sermon, over and over and over again every Sunday for months or even years, give new meaning to the phrase "the wearing out of the saints." 
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