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Re: Should You Do Outreach ONLY in the area you li
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Originally Posted by MomOfADramaQn
I heard something the other day and was totally floored but I am just curious if this is how most pastors really feel - I would hope not but am just curious. There are two churches probably within about 20 miles of each other. Church A went to the little town where Church B is and put tracts on cards at a mall or some type of department store. Pastor of Church B called the pastor of Church A and reprimanded him for doing outreach in his town and told him that was not his territory! Is this normal?? I sure hope not because is sure doesn't seem biblical to me.
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It is quite clear that the Great Commission is to go into the "whole world" BUT you need to use some common sense and courtesy and doing so.
Why would a church in one town go to the little town another church is in to pass out tracts when they have plenty of work to do in their own town?
The question in the title of this thread was so obvious I knew there had to be a catch and this is it - sounds like someone is trying to justify the unjustifiable by cloaking bad behaviour as just doing God's work.
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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."
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