09-03-2010, 07:53 PM
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Re: 2010 UPCI Resolutions
If it is true they will present a resolution empowering districts to further discipline / sanction Pastors who do not preach or adhere to the manual I think there could be a backlash from many, including conservatives, as that would further erode the autonomy of the local church.
As I recall aren't many of the so called "holiness standards" written in the context of verbage like "we recommend" or "we urge" rather than absolutes?
Of course they may limit these new powers to pastors who do not actrively enforce the standards they consider biblical like uncut hair on women, no pants on women, no makeup on women, no jewelry, etc.
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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."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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