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03-12-2013, 11:36 AM
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Rebel with a cause.
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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Originally Posted by Dordrecht
Listen, guys, I threw the TV out of my house about 6 or 7 years ago.
The reason? We found ourselves daily flipping through
the channels in order to find something to watch,
before we knew it it was 11:00 pm and time
to go to bed....wasting the whole evening....flipping through garbage.
After our TV was gone family life was greatly restored, we'r reading, talking, playing games, etc. A big improvement of family life.
However,I don't think that a church organization should set the rules.
That's pure dictatorship, there's no reason to bombard people with
all these rules and regulations and attach these rules to a person's
condition for salvation. (And that's what they are doing, don't be fooled!)
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Great post. You did it for all the right reasons.
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03-12-2013, 11:43 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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God is not into retreat, he keeps on moving forward, he is probably about to bring revival through a new movement.
Waves of revival keep on coming, from unexpected places, from unexpected persons and in unexpected ways.
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It is and will continue to emerge.
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03-12-2013, 11:46 AM
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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Originally Posted by Dordrecht
Listen, guys, I threw the TV out of my house about 6 or 7 years ago.
The reason? We found ourselves daily flipping through
the channels in order to find something to watch,
before we knew it it was 11:00 pm and time
to go to bed....wasting the whole evening....flipping through garbage.
After our TV was gone family life was greatly restored, we'r reading, talking, playing games, etc. A big improvement of family life.
However,I don't think that a church organization should set the rules.
That's pure dictatorship, there's no reason to bombard people with
all these rules and regulations and attach these rules to a person's
condition for salvation. (And that's what they are doing, don't be fooled!)
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So how are you getting your daily dose of wisdom from Phil and Uncle Si?
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03-12-2013, 12:06 PM
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My Family!
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Location: Collierville, TN
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
So how are you getting your daily dose of wisdom from Phil and Uncle Si?
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Opps!
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03-12-2013, 12:21 PM
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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Originally Posted by Evenuntodeath
Makes sense to me.
However, i dont see them getting rid of the skirts and long hair restriction anytime soon. They could do away with the no jewelry and makeup rules.
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Women were shown how to paint there faces for the fallen angels in the book of Enoch.
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03-12-2013, 01:28 PM
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
[QUOTE=FlamingZword;1233176]
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Originally Posted by deacon blues
Do not worry, before the UPCI came into existance, there was a church of God,
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There still is a "Church of God"! I visit the home city of the "Church of God of Cleveland, TN" every few months.
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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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03-12-2013, 01:31 PM
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
The UPCI (or any other organization) isn't the Kingdom of God and should never be seen as anything more than a human organization designed to make money and control members.
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03-12-2013, 01:41 PM
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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Originally Posted by Timmy
Great Frying Flounders!
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LOL!
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03-12-2013, 02:09 PM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
Well, now that they passed a resolution to allow killing, it suddenly becomes acceptable to watch killing on TV.
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03-12-2013, 02:56 PM
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Re: UPC Resolution to Remove TV from Manual
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Originally Posted by Aquila
The UPCI (or any other organization) isn't the Kingdom of God and should never be seen as anything more than a human organization designed to make money and control members.
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Your view is a cynical one that I reject. While I think there may be many misguided people I think the vast majority of them are sincere and dedicated. It is demeaning and untrue to say that the UPCI is designed to make money and control members.
The budget crisis the UPC HQ has been in for a few years now should dispel the notion that as an org. it is a money making machine. The control thing does happen but as a result of their sects view of the bible. Not because they just created an org. to control members.
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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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