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Originally Posted by anapko81
I can relate with that. My wife's parents founded and pastored a church just like that. Whenever we would make suggestions as to the healsth of the church, we were met with condemnations of compromise and heresy. We finally left after spending nearly 20 years there. To this day, the church is pretty, but only family and very close friends go there, about 30 people. Sad, very sad.
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I know a prominent preacher who received a lot of criticism for calling this what it is - "spiritual incest".
He talked about Pentecostals being so closed off from society that they focused on preaching to themselves, etc.
This was quite some time ago but one of this preachers ideas was that rather than the larger UPC districts holding Campmeetings in seculded sanctuaries in small towns or in the country that they should rent convention halls in major cities and make the campmeetings an evangelistic outreach.
I felt that he made a great point.