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Re: Badge of Honor? Trash talking other churches
When I was a teenager back in the '70's I attended High School with three or four teenagers from another UPC church a few miles out of town from my UPC church.
Their pastor was very conservative, a graduate of ABI, and made it clear to his saints that my church was not right. Primarily because my pastor used hair spray and wore flared bottom pants (that was the style circa 1975).
A few years later while I was away at Bible College their pastor ran off with the young daughter of one of the elders in his church. Naturally he kept right on preaching and within a short time was pastoring an independent Pentecostal / Charismatic church in another state. At least he has remained married to the girl he ran off with for the last 30 years or so!
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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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