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Re: Non Traditional Church Pastord By Ex UPCer
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Originally Posted by Ron
I was just saying that numbers doesn't always equal success or that one is preaching the right doctrine!
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I could also point out to you that if a church is in a populated area and fails to grow or even shrinks then it is not bearing fruit. You don't hear that preached much in a lot of old time Pentecostal churches because it indicts many of them!
I don't recall anybody on this thread saying that the size of a church equaled success or meant one was preaching right doctrine. Heading down that path is a cop out a lot of Pentecostals use to make them feel better about the results of their efforts. If you have "right doctrine" and "success" the result should be church growth.
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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"
Last edited by CC1; 01-30-2013 at 03:55 PM.
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