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Strange Things That Have Happened To You In Church
What is the strangest thing that has happened to you in church or that you have personally observed in church?
I know I have a bunch if I thought hard enough but the most recent one that sticks out in my mind is this past Easter Sunday which was the first Sunday we were in our new building.
We had been running about 450-500 people and I was worried that our first Sunday would be down a lot since we had done no advertising and the new location is in an out of the way place, not off of a main road or street. The only promtion we had was an article in the local newspaper about our move.
Turned out we had a little over 700 people that first service with lots of new faces. One of those new faces was a young mother with her small child who in the middle of the sermon stormed out of the building. However on her way out she stopped at the technical booth at the back and chose me to curse out.
In the sermon the pastor mentioned about God forsaking Jesus on the cross and that caused that woman to become unglued. She stared at me and said " God NEVER forsake Jesus and I am not going to sit here and let my child listen to this @#X%!!!!" She then proceeded to curse even more before finally moving on and out the door. We have very good security at church but in this instance no one was around.
I thought it was interesting that she was so concerned about having her two year old listen to what she considered false doctrine but had no problem cursing up a storm in front of the child.
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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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