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Old 10-13-2011, 08:13 AM
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CC1 - wouldn't work.

They wouldn't be able to sell books, CD's, DVD's to everyone there. That's a big money maker for them (or used to be).
I have a feeling the expense of putting on an almost week long conference at the major venue's it takes to house 15,000 people has outgrown any profit they make from video or book sales.

Just the travel expenses alone of all of the HQ staff they have to bring in both to plan and execute a GC has to be in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Old 10-13-2011, 10:23 AM
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CC1 - wouldn't work.

They wouldn't be able to sell books, CD's, DVD's to everyone there. That's a big money maker for them (or used to be).
They could sell them online if they were dong webcasts.
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Old 10-13-2011, 10:30 AM
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Re: Proposal For New General Conference

The Mormon Church does something very similar to this for their GC. They also have it broadcasted on national tv and their own BYU channel on Dish and Direct TV. But the idea is still the same.
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Old 10-13-2011, 10:31 AM
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Re: Proposal For New General Conference

In my best deep preachified voice, "Gawd is a Gawd that will not change, and His organization will not become one dictated to by the evils of technology where people worship to what is goin on on a screen. We do not worship images, we do not worship to images and revival will not occur in His organization through a wire."

Hows that?
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Old 10-13-2011, 10:56 AM
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I think GC should be for ministers only.
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Old 10-13-2011, 03:26 PM
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Re: Proposal For New General Conference

The largest UPC in St. Louis will seat 1,500...which is no where big enough to host anything of this measure.
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Old 10-13-2011, 04:05 PM
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The largest UPC in St. Louis will seat 1,500...which is no where big enough to host anything of this measure.
Keep in mind we are not talking about it being what it is today as far as size. That is the whole idea! The size would be in the remote audiences in hundreds of churches across North America streaming a high quality video feed to big screens.

If 1,500 for the live audience isn't big enough for you then rent another denoms church like they did for Bro. Urshan's funeral.
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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."

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Re: Proposal For New General Conference

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If 1,500 for the live audience isn't big enough for you then rent another denoms church like they did for Bro. Urshan's funeral.
Just to clarify, N. A. Urshan's funeral was held at Calvary Tabernacle in Indianapolis, a UPC church that seats about 2500 people.
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Old 10-14-2011, 09:35 AM
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Re: Proposal For New General Conference

GC is about fellowship and seeing each other. Webcasts don't do that.
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Old 10-14-2011, 10:52 AM
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Just to clarify, N. A. Urshan's funeral was held at Calvary Tabernacle in Indianapolis, a UPC church that seats about 2500 people.
Thanks for the clarificaton. For some reason I thought it was in St. Louis at some other denom's church. Maybe I was thinking of David Barnard's installation service. Anybody know where that was held?
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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."

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