This us vs. them attitude stinks! The internet is the enemy of people who use control to limit information. People can now get info that used to be protected or hidden, if they have a desire to research and know the truth.
Newsflash: There are pastors out there that are not good pastors, and would be out of business if they ran a business! Unfortunately, the natural process of eliminating these pastors from their positions many times doesn't exist!
Newsflash: There are parishioners out there that could possibly be in prison if pastors told authorities everything that they knew!
Both sides have problem people. Both sides have mostly great people!
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This us vs. them attitude stinks! The internet is the enemy of people who use control to limit information. People can now get info that used to be protected or hidden, if they have a desire to research and know the truth.
Newsflash: There are pastors out there that are not good pastors, and would be out of business if they ran a business! Unfortunately, the natural process of eliminating these pastors from their positions many times doesn't exist!
Newsflash: There are parishioners out there that could possibly be in prison if pastors told authorities everything that they knew!
Both sides have problem people. Both sides have mostly great people!
Truth is, we are all a bunch of flawed folks, trying to present ourselves as acceptable to God. The irony is, He knows the truth, and that should humble us all. Which leaves us with one true option: fall on the grace and blood of Jesus.
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
Truth is, we are all a bunch of flawed folks, trying to present ourselves as acceptable to God. The irony is, He knows the truth, and that should humble us all. Which leaves us with one true option: fall on the grace and blood of Jesus.
This us vs. them attitude stinks! The internet is the enemy of people who use control to limit information. People can now get info that used to be protected or hidden, if they have a desire to research and know the truth.
Newsflash: There are pastors out there that are not good pastors, and would be out of business if they ran a business! Unfortunately, the natural process of eliminating these pastors from their positions many times doesn't exist!
Newsflash: There are parishioners out there that could possibly be in prison if pastors told authorities everything that they knew!
Both sides have problem people. Both sides have mostly great people!
Great post. The "us against them" reflex often makes people too defensive or offensive and rarely gets anything substantial done...kind of like partisan politics.
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
Great post. The "us against them" reflex often makes people too defensive or offensive and rarely gets anything substantial done...kind of like partisan politics.
__________________ "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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