Talk about Inconsistencies!!!!
 

The passing of Resolution #4 has caused the UPC to be inconsistent with their stance. So we can now advertise our churches and minstries on TV but we can't own one. We can now run a 30 minute infomercial that is still defined as advertisement but it allows us to include some of our choir singing, some of our preacher preaching, some of our life-changing altar calls and an invitation to the church. But this is NOT ministry on tv it is advertising.

Good or bad is not the goal nor intent of this thread but merely to bring to light an inconsistnecy.

Mark my words, It may not be next year nor the next but television will soon be allowed officially in our manuals. This is only the foothold.

What are your thoughts? Is it coming down that dusty road? And if it is coming is it bringing compromise on other "standards?"

It's not the only inconsistency.

Shall we name them all?

Can't wear a little diamond around your neck, but not a problem with a two carat wedding ring.

No man can be truly consistent, but if they are striving for it, then that is a good thing. You can't change everything at once.

The only inconsistancy is in the fact that it is OK to have internet access where all of this is available (and worse), but not to own or watch a TV. :drama

Who said that wedding rings were okay? That is not addressed officially by the UPC. Or at least not that I have ever seen:hypercoffee

The hidden purpose of R4 reveiled.

Theo, there is no hidden purpose! Look, the guys that want televisions have them. period. the guys that dont, dont.

this was about using television as a tool for ministry.

at some point in the future, TV will be stricken from the manual in its entirety. that I firmly believe. One can argue this was the first step in that direction, but there is no "hidden" ajenda here. that is silly.

"Hidden" may not the correct word but everyone that voted for this resolution had to know that this would be the first step in eventually removing the tv prohibition from the manual. Surely the progression is clear.

It'll just save everyone money - - now they won't have to go purchase DVD's of their favorite shows to view on the TV sitting in their living rooms without TV hook up.

there is no hidden purpose, but it is only a matter of time before all the standards fall...

Not because they WERE wrong when they were made...

but because 50 years later the culture that we live in is so different that things that offended 50 years ago don't matter anymore...