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Re: Restoration after a moral failure
On a lighter note this thread made me think about a story a friend of mine told me about something that happened when his father, a UPC minister, served on his district board and was listening to the evidence brought against a licensed pastor accused of adultery.
The woman he had the affair with was testifying to the board about her liaisons with the pastor when she recounted one of their meetings in a hotel room. She said that after they made love she turned on the tv at which point the pastor looked at his mistress and said (seriously) "Woman, turn that devil box off!!!!". Now there was a man committed to his "standards"!!!
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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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