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Re: Institutionalized Church / Your Input
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Originally Posted by Esaias
I feel sorry for folks who don't understand and experience the LOUD and powerful times with God ALSO and (who) judge people's spirituality NEGATIVELY by how loud and boisterous they get in prayer and worship.
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Of course you totally missed my point. I don't judge anybody's spirituality by how loud or boisterous they worship. I am just saying they are not any more spiritual than those who do not do that and that they don't enjoy God's blessings, healing, strengthening, etc any more than those that don't.
In the old time Pentecost I was raised in the idea was that God blessed, healed, delivered, etc pretty much 100% of the time in atmospheres of intense emotional, loud, boistrous worship. My point is that my life experience has shown me that I see an equal number of blessings, healings, etc in churches that don't engage in that and I believe it is because God doesn't need a bunch of people screaming and jumping up and down for him to operate or hear prayers.
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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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