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Christian Life Center Stockton CA
I saw a FB post this morning about someone visiting Christian Life Center in Stockton for church and that spurred me to check out their live webcast of their service.
i was pretty shocked when the wide camera shot shows that the auditorium is about 2/3 empty. Now the wide shot only shows one side of the sanctuary and that side of the balcony but if the same holds true for the right side, wow!
Looks like may 1000-1500 people in an auditorium I have been told seats about 5,000. Since they have been in it for years and don't seem to be growing it makes me wonder why they don't just have the Sunday services back at the old sanctuary where I understand they have their midweek service? If I remember correctly it seats around 3,000 and could clearly handle about double the number of people I see in this service.
I know some AFF posters are out of or have ties to this church so perhaps they can shed some light on this.
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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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