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Originally Posted by NewbieMisfits
End of day Sunday will be 1 month visiting the Church we found, (our first Apo' Church aside from a school I went to as a teen).
So the question comes... how does one know if they are actually welcome?
(we don't wish to be those that are not)
Any good ways to test this to actually know?
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We've been on a church hunt for years now. There is one we attend semi-regularly but we don't consider it 'our' church by any means. A few times we've been asked to visit a UPC and we nearly did but ducked out at the last minute in each case. I told my wife that the moment we step foot into one we will meet genuinely friendly people (which will be so different from just about every other church we've visited so far) in terms of them coming up to greet us with by smiles, and probably inviting us to lunch on the spot. The
issues will start within 1-2 months as we fail to attend every service and and my wife continues to wear pants and shorts. While I am sure that there are some smaller UC churches in the Phoenix valley, I do not know of any personally and the ones I DO know of actually allow their members to own TV's, attend MLB and NFL games (our teams NEED the help here!) and for the
guys to wear shorts. I guess in some ways the UPC overall has come a long ways since I attended regularly during the 80's, although I will argue that 2 holiness "standards" is just as bad as 20, so even though they are more lax I have the same issues with them now as I did 25 years ago.
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