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Another reason to love Tennessee
I have enjoyed the 11 years I have lived now in Tennessee although I still consider myself a Texan / Alaskan.
I constantly have new experiences that make me appreciate it here. Last night on my way home from a business trip I drove through Memphis (ughhh) and then Jackson, TN on my home to the Nashville area.
In Jax TN, home of our beloved Sherri Cupples, I stopped for dinner at "The Old Country Restaurant and Store" that I have eaten at a couple of times before.
When entering the building I heard some great music and looked over at the ice cream parlor to see a folk / country band made up of two guitars, a banjo, a mandelin, and upright bass. Those guys were playing and singing so good it sounded like a record was playing. The vocal harmonies were spot on and it was just a real treat to stop and listen.
The music they were playing and singing was a style that I would never go out and buy or listen to on the radio but live and in person it is wonderful.
The audience was small as it was just a few people standing around listening and the diners and shoppers but these guys were clearly singing for just the enjoyment of it.
I wish I could have stayed longer and listened more. Reminded me of the time I went camping with my son way out in the middle of nowhere Tennessee and we went to a small town bowling alley and in the little restaurant area was three teenagers with overalls on playing a guitar & banjo and singing gospel hymns. Only in Tennessee! (ok well maybe in Kentucky also)
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"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."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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