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Re: A Wrecked Church!
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Originally Posted by ILG
Oh, that made me shudder. We've been on the receiving end of that relentless heckling.  |
I have a great heckling story. I was at a UPC revival in London England in 1977. (I don't want to give details of this story because I still have some portion of anonymity on here) and one night a young man and two young women probably in their early 20's showed up for the service.
During the preaching the young man began to heckle the UPC preacher visiting from the United States. Rather than kick the young man out or get angry the preacher (who is a really cool guy)used his sense of humor to respond directly back to the young man in a humorous but kind way.
This went on for a few minutes but eventually the young man shut up. Fast forward years later and after some big UPC meeting in the USA a man came up to this preacher and said "you don't know who I am do you?" To which my preacher friend replied no. The guy went on to say he was that young man who had heckled the preacher in London. He had been so moved by the message and the kind godly way this preacher handled his heckling that not too long after that meeting he gave his life to the Lord and became a Christian. Not an every day occurrence in London I assure you. When we were passing out fliers inviting people to that revival I had never met so many agnostic and atheist people in my life!
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"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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