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Re: 55th Annual Campmeeting (For Bro Eply)
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Originally Posted by MawMaw
Is that how your church works?
The Apostolic churches I've been to, never drag
anyone to the altar.
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LOL!! No my church doesn't work that way but in my 55 years in and around Pentecost I have seen my share that do. I have personally been in many services where visitors or saints perceived as "not right with God" were coerced to go down front to the altar with people hanging all over them.
Just this past weekend a relative of mine raised in a large UPC church was visiting and venting about his frustration with this happening to him. When he would visit church and bow his head to pray at the end of a service he would immediately be surrounded by well meaning folks urging him to go down to the altar. He said they would not even consider that one could have made things right with God some other time or place. If you didn't go down front and do what they wanted done you were not right with God.
After leaving the UPC many years ago someone had the nerve to come up to my wife in her home church and talk to her about being lost and trying to get her to go to the altar. This woman had known my wife for many years in that church did not know my wife's life or our church now.Only that we were attending an ex UPC church and that my wife wore makeup now, cut her hair, etc. It was another 10 or more years before my wife would step foot in her home church again. She would visit her pastor, whom she loved, at his home but would not visit the church when we were in town.
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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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