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Re: Personal Responsibility
German, good to hear things are going better than when you posted this thread almost a year ago.
I think God expects us to give our very best effort then turn the rest over to him (which is very hard to do). He does come through. Many times not in the way we wanted or thought he would or should but he does come through.
I have had some tough times financially in my life but God has never let me starve. In my toughest time he sent me two or three miracles that were not long term solutions to my problems at the time but bolstered my faith and will to go on.
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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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