[Digging4Truth]

Indeed...

We currently attend a UPC church. The nearest oneness church is about 35-40 miles up the road. Neither of these churches are large (One runs 50-60 and the other close to 100.)

It would benefit them both to fellowship one another. We were visiting the non UPC church and mentioned that it would be really great to have these churches fellowship. He agreed and said he would be excited to see such a thing happen (he is also the larger of the 2 churches).

We mentioned this to the UPC pastor & his wife and asked "Why don't we fellowship the church up the road". The very matter of fact reply was... "They're not UPC".


Good grief.

To be fair I must mention that, the 1-2 years I have been at this church they don't really fellowship any of the other UPC churches either. They go to HYC, Youth Congress etc but there is no local fellowship among any other oneness churches that I am aware of.

Man... when I was a kid growing up in UPC we knew ever other kid in every other UPC church in our district. UPC churches don't even fellowship one another much anymore in a lot of places.