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Originally Posted by edjen01
for the most part this is one of several unenforced requirements/rules.
i think really the ONLY requirement that the UPCI is willing to "go-to-war-over"...is paying dues.  |
In the spring of 1957 I came to the Cincinnati area to spend the summer. Soon after arriving here I saw an ad in the newspaper that Bro. Gordon Magee was going to be speaking at the Full Gospel Church, which was organized after a split in 1945 off the UPC church here. The pastor of the Full Gospel Church was Bro. Joe David Sizemore. I'm not sure what organization he was in at the time, I think it was AMC (Apostolic Missionary Council) or he may have already been in the ALJC. I was staying with a family who attended the UPC church and when their son saw the ad he contacted his pastor who was the District Superintendent and he saw to it that the meeting was cancelled.
Another example I saw of this rule being invoked was in the early 1960's. I had stopped going to the UPC church in Cincinnati and was going to the ALJC church mentioned above. By that time the ALJC church was renamed the Carthage Appostolic Church. One of the men who attended the UPC church in Cincinnati lived in Ludlow, KY which was just across the river. He started a church in his neighborhood. Hs name was Paul Estep. At the time he started the church he was with the UPC and he had me preach his opening service. Since I was attending the UPC church in Cincinnati that was OK. I preached for him a couple more times while he was UPC and I was going to the Cincinnati Church. Later, in the early 1960's, this UPC pastor had a youth rally in a high school. I don't remember if the school was in Ludlow or one of the other little neighboring cities. Those cities all run together and it's hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. The pastor had a speaker from Dayton, OH who was in the ALJC. I guess this did not set right with a UPC pastor from Covington, KY (which was a neighboring city to Ludlow) and with a UPC pastor from Carrollton, KY which was about 40 miles away. Bro. Estep was notified that two UPC pastors had filed charges against him for having an ALJC pastor preach his youth rally. Bro. Estep did not go to the inquisition but turned in his license and joined the ALJC. I preached for him at his ALJC church after that but that was OK because I was going to an ALJC church also.
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