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Re: Badge of Honor? Trash talking other churches
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Originally Posted by Titus2woman
Our closest UPCI churches do not fellowship each other at all.
The pastor from the bigger church calls the smaller church weak and says mean things about the pastor over the pulpit... members buy the tapes for the purpose of giving them to family who attend the smaller church who then give them to the pastor... He is a sweet and sensitive man and I know it has to really hurt his feelings. These are not young men... the pastor of the big church is in his late 70s and the other pastor is 60ish and grew up with the older pastors kids who are all preachers.
The kids from the smaller church can not even go to school at the bigger church because they are constantly pressured to 'come to a good church'... The whole thing had the net effect of totally disgusting me.
Biggest difference in standards... the pastor from the small church allows wedding rings and hair bows... everything else is the same.
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What does this "younger" pastor expect? Any man that would allow women to wear wedding rings and hair bows should expect to be osctracized!!! (my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek. No wonder why a lot of people consider old time Pentecost cultic)
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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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