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Re: Much Bragging Today
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Originally Posted by Dante
Our boast should be in the cross. Not numbers.
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The boast is not in the numbers themselves. The rejoicing, not boasting, is in what the numbers represent. As I said before people who are not normally in church for the most part and it is an opportunity for them to hear the word of God and have their hearts touched which could lead to them deciding to follow Christ.
I just don't get it. Should one strive to not have visitors on the one Sunday of the year that many folks who don't come to church any other Sunday are apt to come? Should one be sad when they show up on Easter Sunday and ashamed so one doesn't find joy in new people hearing the word of God? I must again state as I did in an earlier post - Good Grief!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"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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