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Re: Bin Laden's wives obey Acts 238???
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Originally Posted by Nitehawk013
In LS's defense, he was far from the only one to use that story for dramatic effect. Prior to the internet allowing for checking of sources this story was very well spread and well used, outside Apostolic ranks as well.
MANY preachers tend to not check sources for validity when it comes to good inspirational stories. My guess would be that LS did this same thing with this Osama's wives story. Someone he knew and respected todl him it happened so he believed them and used the story in a sermon. Happens quite often with many a preacher across denominal lines.
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Pretty weak defense. Where I come from we call a spade a spade.
How can any preacher expect people to take him seriously and believe what he says if he repeats wild stories as truth without any fact finding?
Conversely, how can people believe anything these preachers say if they are do such a poor job of fact finding? Apparently the threshold for credibility must be quite low in the UPC just as it is in some Charismatic circles.
The same UPC folks who will make fun of crazy stories about Charismatics seeing gold dust will believe wild stories from one of their own.
Your defense of LS is very close to the philosophy that says preachers don't have to tell the truth because they are "building faith" when they tell lies. Of course we know that biblically that is a bunch of hooey.
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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"
Last edited by CC1; 06-11-2012 at 07:31 PM.
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