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Re: **preacher forums**
During a coffee break this morning I finally speed read this thread from start to finish. Someone had complained about the content so I was expecting heaven knows what. I did not see anything in this thread to cause anybody to get upset about unless some posts have been edited or deleted before I saw them.
I have no problem with preacher only forums. I think it is great preachers of like faith can have a place to discuss both doctrine and church matters AND comment on the church world as they see it.
A forum of conservative preachers would naturally discuss trends or ministries they see as straying from their beloved legalism "ALERT: It is rumored Bro. SoandSo had a youth meeting and there were THREE teenagers with short sleeves on there!!!!!"
By the same token I have no doubt that a lib preachers forum would discuss the absurdity of their local ultra cons legalism and the irony when an ultra con or conservative preacher is discovered to have been engaging in ongoing sexual sin while thumping his pulpit and enforicing a stringent clothesline of dress codes.
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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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