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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Originally Posted by IbelongtoJesus
I think this thread needs to stop. The allegations are true. He has stepped down. The church is now in a healing process. End of story. The rest is under the blood of Jesus, and between Bro. Black, his family, and God. No one should be speculating or discussing it, he was wrong, he knows he was, and the proper measures were taken when it came to light. TPC is strong, the people are strong and know what to do when the devil comes against us. We came together and sought the face of God. HE dealt with this situation.
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Yup. Lets just sweep it under the rug like it never happened. Another fine old time Pentecostal tradition!
What will be interesting is to see if his many years in the UPC and connections will get him a quickie "restoration" after a quick sit down of six months (usually reserved for the sons of Blue Blood UPC folks) or if the extended timeline of his moral failure will complicate that.
For once I would love to see one of these pastors who has been in sexual sin to voluntarily come forward and confess before seeking restoration. It seems they don't become repentant until they are caught.
In any case most of these Pastors of large Pentecostal churches have enough money and/or investment property and mutual funds to get by for a very long time. Not to mention the large financial settlement it is said he is seeking from the church. If I were the church I would give him nothing but a box to put his personal things in from his office. Who I feel sorry for is his family.
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"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"
Last edited by CC1; 10-09-2012 at 07:16 PM.
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