What would we change, IF we could...
 

Obviously the tread is open to all, but I'd like for UPC people to give their answers

If we could start over again or change things, what would we leave in the manual and what would we preach? What would we do away with OR what would we add...

for example:
I think we need to lose the whole facial hair issue. There is absolutley no Biblical reasoning for why we ask this of our men/ministers.


what else would we change???

Is facial hair mentioned in the manual?

Get everybody to really believe the New Birth message.

It's in there somewhere.....
Ministers have to be clean shaven..........
Someone went as far as to write a booklet about it

I would simply make all the rules this:

There is no number of rules anyone can follow that makes them holy, thus a rulebook is useless as an attempt to make a "holy church"... A holy church is a church that seeks God and follows Him both seperately as each individual person and collectively as a community...

I like it!

The organization appears to be a "Pastoral" one...I'd like to see the five-fold ministry in action, where all the ministries work together for the perfecting of the saints, not just the pastor.

Ensey.

I don't believe it is. Nor does it say anything about women wearing pants.

I'd agree!