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Cool Thing At Church Today
Tonight when the lead team met to talk and pray before our evening service (3rd service of the day) the pastor told us something cool.
He asked if we had noticed a man who at the end of one of the morning services had hugged his neck, was crying, and pastor prayed with him.
He said not long ago he was coming out of Starbucks with a friend and met this guy going in with his little girl. Pastor stopped and asked him "is she 4 ?" because he has a daughter that age. The man said yes and pastor complimented him on how pretty his little girl was and went on his way.
It turns out the guy had just been reading the newspaper article about our new church building and I think he recognized pastor's picture so knew who he was. The man thought it was an interesting coincidence but nothing more.
The man is a beer connoisseur and it so happens that our new church building is a 112 year old factory whose only other tenant is a micro brewery in the rear of the building. The man went to visit this brewery and saw the church sign outside the main entrance and then the glass doors and windows into our sanctuary from the main foyer / hallway of the building.
He thought about all of the "coincicidences" that had occurred to do with our church and pastor and purposed to come check out the church. That is what he did today and his world was rocked. Turns out he had gone through recent pain in his life and really needs God.
I love it when these sorts of things happen. I am glad this man was sensitive enough to the "nudge" God gave him to go ahead and check out our church.
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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; 04-14-2013 at 10:01 PM.
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