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Re: Confession time
I particularly agree with the posts by Elder Epley, Hoovie, and MissBratperson. I think all of the following are relevant (kind of pulled together from those posts);
- God does still deliver people from sin.
- That deliverance is sometimes instantaneously and sometimes over time
- Some struggles may not be something God chooses to deliver us from but may be our "thorn in the flesh" to endure our lifetime BUT we can still live an overcoming and victorious life in Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit.
- We must hate the sin and not excuse it while loving the sinner.
- In exhibiting the fruit of the spirit we must make sure that people do not mistake love, kindness, etc as approval of sin.
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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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