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Re: Wide World Of Truth
Back in the 80's when MH left the church over personal "issues" (don't ask I am not getting into it here) the church fell apart. The assistant pastor, whose name I forget, continued to try and carry on but over a very few years ended up in a church seating around 1500 or so with only one or two hundred people. I visited during that time. The congregation was not large enough or affluent enough to support the upkeep of that size church and it showed. Some time later, probably in the late 80's possibly early 90's the building was sold to a black congregation. I don't know of what denomination.
I visited the church duing it's heyday in the late 70's twice. The church was packed, the program was nationally telecast, and the church had started a Bible College. The prayer rooms were behind the platform and with several hundred people all praying starting an hour or more before church time when you entered the sanctuary you could hear kind of a muted roar. Maybe it was because I was an impressionable teenager at the time but I recall both visits just feeling the presence of God when you walked in that sanctuary like nothing I have before. Obviously I don't think it was the building or the pastor. I do think it was probably the presence of God being ushered end by those hundreds praying in those prayer rooms.
As others have stated over the years on AFF Mark Hanby was the premiere orator in the UPC in the late 60's through mid 70's. He and Kenneth Phillips were the UPC's top evangelists even though they both were also pastors.
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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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