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Originally Posted by philjones
I would say that the Parkersburg church is atypical of the UPCs that I am familiar with. Perhaps this is the coming new norm or perhaps Dad will soon step aside and the church will soon follow the path of the "victimized" son.
Either way, churches like this one is one of the key motivators of Tulsa... much more so than Resolution 4.
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I am not judging Delton Smith nor the Parkersburg church.
I believe Delton is a fine man, a man of God, and that whatever he does is in the fear of God. I've only been to that church once. That was in June of 1990. At that time the folks there looked like "typical" OP's. At that time they were not using song books or hymnals but had switched to choruses with the words on a screen. Delton had rented a monitor to view something on vhs tape --I don't remember now what it was-- but he let us know that this was not a tv receiver because it could only play tapes. Pastor Eddie Kozar (from Ironton, OH) happened to be there that day also. His wife was a step sister to Delton's wife. Pastor Kozar mentioned that he had purchased tapes from a recent UPC conference for his mother to watch. So, at that time it seems that both Pastor Kozar and Pastor Smith were in compliance with the UPC ban on tv.
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