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Originally Posted by Steadfast
For all the talk about 'recruiting' and 'stealing members' and 'unethical' that abounds I have to tell you that this isn't the spirit of the coordinators at all!
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With all respect, Elder, this may be true from YOUR perspective...however, my brother pastors a UPCI assembly in Illinois.
He told me he has been approached
several times by WPFers to leave the UPCI and join them, and I don't mean just in the beginning. This is true in recent months...
Again, I am NOT doubting your word, but this is just your experience, and the view of the men you were with.
It is NOT the experience of everyone.
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
This makes me think of the Lee Stoneking thread...becauuuussseee...I think that leaders often underestimate the power of suggestion. They can make a suggestion to an audience, veiled, implied or outright--and SOMEone is going to run with the implication. The overall intent will be ignored, assuming it was good intent.
Lee Stoneking--just preaching his thoughts--has, with Ruth Reider, inspired a sub culture of belief about cut hair that is patently unbiblical, and I seriously doubt that was his intent.
In THIS case, I think it WAS the intent to lay some framework, but perhaps things got out of hand and moved along quicker, and differently than was originally planned.
Irrelevant, really, because the end is still chaos and discord.
One preacher said to a group of fellow ministers about another preacher who wasn't present: "I had to let him go." "Why?" *quiet smile* "I can't say, but he did commit sin." Rumor mill took that quiet, vague comment and RAN away with it.
People are people everywhere.
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Good post, Missy...
