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Re: Left the UPC...Now Back Again
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Originally Posted by Renee29
Sorry, I don't think that is treating them like second class citizens. There are many people that are not allowed on the platform for various reasons. The ministry/platform in any church has a set of standards. I personally don't believe most of the standards myself, but see nothing wrong with having standards for the platform.
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I hope you reflect upon your post here and over time come to see that it is EXACTLY treating folks as second class citizens.
The whole point being made was that if you don't adhere to the dress code you are not considered fully "right" with God and not allowed to participate in ministry.
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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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