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Re: Non Traditional Church Pastord By Ex UPCer
I think there is room for a lot of different type churches. The Experience Community Church is a church that some people would not feel comfortable in but many others do.
I hope that every single person who would not feel comfortable at TECC finds a church that they are and plugs in.
I think it is easy for folks to get hung up on their particular style of service or worship and think that is the only way to do things.
Experience Church appeals to a lot of younger people and people who would not step foot in a traditional church but I don't think that means more traditional churches don't have their place.
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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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