__________________ "Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
Daniel's insight into the NCO and AWCF developments is incredibly instructive.
I personally know that the NCO is being very, very aggressive currently.
maybe so, but if it emerges as another version of a strictly fidelity-based ministerial alliance it will follow the same arc pattern over a much shorter time period.
Networks do not equate to organizations.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath [James 1:19]
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The worst thing that ever happened to the UPCI was not TV but the internet.
By allowing it ... they not opened the door to an inconsistent argument over allowing a "dangerous and worldly" medium in the home ... but also in allowing a medium that will result in it's long awaited rift.
Men, women, and teens have been bombarded with information that not only challenges the tenets of their faith but has heightened the ideological debate within the fellowship to a hysterical frenzy.
Email, websites, chat, IMs, blogs, forums, youtube, streaming video and audio .... have replaced the snail mail, newsletters, and other forms of print that were used to propagandize the dueling views within the fellowship and the divergent opinions among the people.
Some ministers have said that no matter what they do ... in almost every fellowship they partake of ... the issues dividing the fellowship inevitably come up ... and the difference today ... is everyone seems to know more than they ever did about the arguments being presented on all sides.
The worst thing that ever happened to the UPCI was not TV but the internet.
By allowing it ... they not opened the door to an inconsistent argument over allowing a "dangerous and worldly" medium in the home ... but also in allowing a medium that will result in it's long awaited rift.
Men, women, and teens have been bombarded with information that not only challenges the tenets of their faith but has heightened the ideological debate within the fellowship to a hysterical frenzy.
Email, websites, chat, IMs, blogs, forums, youtube, streaming video and audio .... have replaced the snail mail, newsletters, and other forms of print that were used to propagandize the dueling views within the fellowship and the divergent opinions among the people.
Some ministers have said that now matter what they do ... in almost every fellowship they partake of ... the issues dividing the fellowship inevitably come up ... and the difference today ... is everyone seems to know more than they ever did about the arguments being presented on all sides.
THAT is a VERY preceptive post bro. you are dead on.
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In 1992 ... pre the information age ...only a handful knew what was really going on and what the real meaning behind the AS was ... the bulk simply bought the official explanation as explained by the GS letter to the fellowship.
Today... in this age .... that ain't going to happen after this GC.
I wonder why none of these folks that are leaving the UPC are going to the ALJC? You would think they would want a Org that at least holds a similar doctrinal position.
This is telling to me, as if you consider it, most of them are leaving standards as well as the UPC, and can easily be accepted by NCO and AWCF. The ALJC, though not aggressive, still has a semblance of holiness within its constituency. The other issue I see is that they (NCO) are embracing trinitarians, or at least having them minister in their pulpits. The dividing line is becoming increasingly blurred as to what is Truth. I predict that in the future the division between the NCO folks, and trinitarians will be erased completely.
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