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Re: "The Open Church" by James Rutz
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Originally Posted by n david
The founder of a fellowship we've been attending in a home for the past year has now decided they want to look for a building to rent, get non profit status and set up a church board.
It's disappointing, but not a complete surprise.
Not interested in joining another business enterprise.
Funny, when we first began attending, I didn't think I'd like going from leading worship in a church of 150 to meeting with 2 other families (about 11 people). And now after a year, I really don't want to go back to a church building, where it's structured and run by just a chosen few.
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So you don't want the church to grow and reach people for Christ? You want to keep it just your family and couple of others so you will feel comfortable? Wow. I guess it is a good thing you weren't there on the day of Pentecost in Acts because you would have been so disappointed at how many were added to the church that day.
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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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