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Old 10-02-2012, 07:37 AM
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Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

Looks like a prominent Memphis, TN area UPC pastor has unexpectedly suddenly resigned after 20 years.

I was told that on Sunday visitors were asked to leave, told that they were not having service and at that point the pastor came out and announced his resignation.

While this church is not a "mega church" it is a fairly large one (around 800 members according to their website) and has been stable for years so I am sure they will have no problem finding a new pastor.

Will be interesting to see where the resigning pastor goes.
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Old 10-02-2012, 08:27 AM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

who was the pastor?
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Old 10-02-2012, 09:47 AM
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who was the pastor?
Terry Black.
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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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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

Wow.

If I was a visitor who came to church looking for Christ there and was asked to leave, I would have all sorts of thoughts going through my head.

Too bad the leadership there was not more pulled together to call an emergency business meeting on a weekday when visitors were not involved.
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Old 10-02-2012, 09:51 AM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

Hmmmm - - had not heard that yet.
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

Here's all the latest new, from the church website :



http://www.tpcmemphis.org/news.aspx
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Lol, Timmy! No wonder I hadn't heard anything yet!
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Hmmmm - - had not heard that yet.
I am shocked! You are right there. No excuse. I will be on the road the next hour or so. If you get a chance call me.
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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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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

So sad! I'm thinking there's a lot of preachers that need to be in the alter w/the rest of us!
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So sad! I'm thinking there's a lot of preachers that need to be in the alter w/the rest of us!
It appears you might be close to the situation.
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