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Re: Restoration after a moral failure
I am an equal opportunity hardliner when it comes to restoration to ministry / leadership positions. I have no doubt God forgives a sincere person asking forgiveness and right relationship with God can be restored quickly. That does not mean everything is the same as before in the persons life though and that what happened has no consequences.
I was upset a few years ago when a lib exUPC church Pastor was discovered to be in an extra marital relationship that had gone on for some time and it was swept under the rug when elders (Pastors of other churches he associated with) came in and told the church they needed to stand behind the pastor and forgive and forget. To essentially just act like it never happened.
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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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