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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
Your right Ferd I have not been posting here long and in fairness UPC is part of who you are.
Things look much different today in the UPC/PCI/AG than it did in 1945.
Would you say that the UPCI has blossomed into something better than what Brother Goss could have ever hoped for?
Would he even be allowed behind a pulpit???
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That sir is a trick question.
I know/knew some of the men who were there at the merger. I also know what struggles those men had in holding the thing together against the wishes of some of the more ardent voices who wanted "purification"
Men like Murry Burr caused no small amount of discomfort. I got stories that I wont tell until some more people die...
There was always a fight to keep the organization together. in the end two things happened.
1. Some guys who were more liberal got really liberal
2. That gave a bit more clout to the hardliners like Westburg to say "see I told you so"
Then that second generation was being ushered out the door and needed some legacy. Preserving "the doctrine" became a rally point for them in 1992.
It would have broken Papa George Glasses heart and he was certainly a Water Spirit guy. (that is my herritiage)
THen curiously enough the hardliners werent happy and eventually they cut and ran and formed the World Wreslting Pentecostal Fellowship and left the mothership.
leaving the UPCI more moderate even if more Water/Spirit.
Things right now arent what Goss and Glass and all the others would want but I think it is moving in the direction that would please them.
Where it all ends, as far as I can tell, no one really knows.
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