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Re: Backslid husband
I found it interesting that the husband is critical of the church leadership and if I am reading between the lines correctly it is because they are not strict enough. Yet he has started drinking and cursing! I have to wonder if he is not one of those people who just decides if things aren't going to be done the way he thinks they should be he is just not going to participate.
I have a close relative who has fallen into the age old trap of avoiding "organized religion" because there are hypocrites in the churches. (no I am not related to Timmy - LOL). I have told him that any endeavor that human beings are involved in is going to be imperfect and have duplicitous people, etc. However that doesn't mean there are not honest hearted people doing their best also.
I will be praying for the author of this thread and her marriage and situation. I know this has to be a tremendous stress for her. She is correct that this father needs to consider the little footsteps that will be following his as he walks lifes path.
One question I do have I don't think I saw in her posts is has she directly asked her husband why he has quit church and started drinking and cursing. It is obvious he is from an ultra con background.
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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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