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Re: Experience Community pastors 'Authentic Pursui
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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
Awesome!  Thanks for sharing, a wonderful story of how churches can make a difference in the community, and remain without debt or financial strain. |
The pastor did not take my advice which was to buy the building recently because it would have meant the church would have been in debt $4 million dollars. Our annual payment would actually been $85,000 less than we are leasing for now because we would become the landlords for the other two tenants that share the building.
Even though it meant less cash outlay and we would eventually own the building free and clear the pastor did not want millions of dollars of debt hanging over the head of the church and affecting any decisions the pastoral team might make. I supported his decision.
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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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