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Old 10-10-2012, 10:41 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

Speaking in general of the situation of preachers falling into sexual sin I would have a lot more confidence when they repent and go through restoration if they had willingly come forward and confessed the sin themselves and repented.

I can't think of a single instance of that. What I have observed is preachers becoming repentant AFTER they have been caught and exposed. Then when the vast majority of them take stock of their situation and realize they have no skills for earning money outside of ministry they suddenly become remorseful and repentant and look for the fastest route back to full time paying ministry.
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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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