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Re: 2014 BOTT Quote in Context
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Originally Posted by Ferd
You know, this is such a strange thing.
JA is a guy who I have seen over the years both preach the most amazing relevatory message.... and get himself into the nuttiest controversies.
(is relevatory a word?)
gives me whiplash to even think about it.
I was fortunate as a young man to get to spend some time with him. His heart for people is a big as anyone's ive ever known. He is a brilliant guy who loves God and can just flat preach circles around the very best.... but he also can say some things that just have no explination.
I love the guy. warts and all.
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I bet my first experience with JA is even older than yours! I remember in the 70's meeting him before he was a pastor. He was a traveling Magician / Evangelist. His personality fit the magician gig perfectly. Also being much younger made the brutish crude personna more real. The last 20 years or so you would like to think a person would grow and mature and become better spoken. My belief is he turned something that was "cute" and "amusing" when he was young into a lifelong schtick.
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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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