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Re: Alienated Church: Father's and Mother's day
Prax, you would probably like my church in this area as there will probably only be a brief mention of Father's day since that is what is done for pretty much any special occasion like that.
However, while I understand your disconnect from Mother's Day and Father's Day, you seem bitter towards folks who do have moms and dads and enjoy making it a big day for them both at church and home.
At one church I was a long time member of the pastor's wife always spoke on Mother's Day and it was a special treat. It was pretty much the only time during the year when she spoke to the entire congregation and she always had a great message dealing with mother's. I certainly did not resent those services being organized around Mother's Day as a theme. Heaven knows we need to lift up the role and importance of Motherhood in our society where it is minimized.
I feel the same way about Father's Day. Fatherhood is very important and I have no problem with a Sunday service having that as a focus.
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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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