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Re: Institutionalized Church / Your Input
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
That depends.
If your a trouble maker or he sees you as a trouble maker? Someone who isn't looking out for the church or his best interests? Then I would have to say, no way. A lot of people would like to carry the mail, but sadly they do a really bad job of it. Also agendas, attitudes, all sorts of issues can kill the message, and blow the credibility of the messenger. We all see ourselves as noble and ready to ride out to slay dragons, but in reality we are just killing windmills.
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Good post. I agree 100% with everything except perhaps the last sentence. I am not sure I exactly know what you mean there.
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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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