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Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship
I know there is a sub section for WPF news on this forum but since this main area is where the vast majority of people are I wanted to post this thread here.
Now that the Worldwide Wrestling Pentecostal Fellowship has been active for a few years do some of you folks in the know have an update for us?
What happened after the UPCI drew the line in the sand and said that ministers could not be licensed with the UPC and be a member of WPF? We know what happened in the short term. That some of the UPC preachers heavily invested in the formation of the WPF left the UPC but now that the dust has settled what has happened over time?
Specifically here are some questions I have if anyone has the answers;
1. How many members does the WPF have and how many licensed ministers?
2. In the time since it was formed what has been the ebb and flow of WPF membership? Are more licensed ministers leaving the UPC for the WPF or is there a pattern of WPF ministers moving back to the UPC?
3. Are some ministers having it both ways by retaining their license with the UPC but fellowshipping at WPF conferences / meetings because the people are more "holy" (not my term)?
4. Last but not least if any AFF folks are involved with the WPF can you just give us a general update on what is happening within this ultra conservative organization? (yes you are "ultra conservative" when you think the UPC is liberal!)
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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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