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Re: Welcome Fellow Christians - Steve Pixler 8/17/
I can only imagine the pressure SP is under. Particularly if, as I suspect, some of his ultra con brethern have come to him to try and correct him. I don't blame them for doing that as within their paradigm of thinking he is wrong and they want to "help" him. However the result is still the same that it must be a stressful time for SP as he stands for what he believes.
I do wonder if SP has developed any new pastoral / ministerial relationships more in line with his thinking and that he is able to look to for counseling, prayer, and fellowship as his old crew abandons him and wishes for his church to abandon him. (I don't mean Elder Epley specifically because I don't think he had a personal relationship with SP but certainly his sentiment of wanting SP's church members to all leave is typical of the ultra con mindset and I am sure is being repeated many times over within those circles).
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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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