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Re: Stan Mitchell's Church Gay Inclusive?
I was at a dinner party last night of some old friends and acquaintances and was sitting next to a woman I have known for many years whose family recently left Stan's church over this issue. She says that when he says in his sermon that is at time.com that the church has discussed this for many years that is not true. That he may have discussed it with a few "yes" people at the church but it was not a topic of discussion with the church overall so many people were shocked.
I told her I wasn't shocked because I had heard about him preaching at a gay Pentecostal church several years ago and when I didn't believe it then I either googled or someone sent me the link to a picture of Stan and his wife with that gay pastor and his "husband" as well as a write up about Stan preaching there. Apparently Stan had not publicized that trip to his church folks.
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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"
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"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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