The Fallout Continues - Page 17

Consapostolic1 · #**161** 10-09-2007, 03:53 PM

Pelathais, it's amazing to me the way people treat you if you don't give them the response they expect.

Rhymis · #**162** 10-09-2007, 03:57 PM

Being the only one right in the house must be quite a feeling.

StillStanding · #**163** 10-09-2007, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhymis

Being the only one right in the house must be quite a feeling.

I wouldn't know! I'll have to ask Mrs. Pianoman!!!

pelathais · #**164** 10-09-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhymis

Being the only one right in the house must be quite a feeling.

What's funny is that he probably wouldn't preach the same message today. So again, why should I praise God over the fickle and changing styles and fads another person is enamoured with?

And I doubt I was, or that I still am the only "one right in the house..."

It's just my observation that a lot of the things that get people stirred up one day won't stir anybody up on another day. How will all of the emotion and feeling that is in the wind today look just 10 years from now?

Rhymis · #**165** 10-09-2007, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Pianoman

I wouldn't know! I'll have to ask Mrs. Pianoman!!!

Reminds of this email joke

An old man was laying on his death bed. With only hours to live, he suddenly noticed the scent of chocolate chip cookies coming from the kitchen.
With his last bit of energy, the old man pulled himself out from his bed, across the floor to the stairs, and down the stairs to the kitchen. There, the old man's wife was baking chocolate chip cookies. With his last ounce of energy, the old man reached for a cookie.
His wife, however, quickly smacked him across the back of his hand, and exclaimed, "Leave them alone, they're for the funeral!"

pelathais · #**166** 10-09-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Consapostolic1

Pelathais, it's amazing to me the way people treat you if you don't give them the response they expect.

Exactly. I think it's the job of the preacher (or whoever is delivering the message) to find a way to convince his/her audience that the message is important.

If you can't convince your audience that the message is important, it's not their fault; it's yours. We tend to try and train our saints to be just the opposite. We work them over at times and try and get them worked up like at a high school pep rally.

At the high school pep rally you're supposed to be for your team no matter what. No questions asked. In a church environment we are actually admonished to be just the opposite: Isaiah 8:20; Matthew 7:15-20; Mark 7:14-16; 1 John 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; Revelation 2:2 and etc.

Sister Alvear · #**167** 10-09-2007, 04:37 PM

well,well...country music? Maybe Conway Twitty music inspires some...I like Jewish music...

Rhymis · #**168** 10-09-2007, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by pelathais

What's funny is that he probably wouldn't preach the same message today. So again, why should I praise God over the fickle and changing styles and fads another person is enamoured with?

And I doubt I was, or that I still am the only "one right in the house..."

It's just my observation that a lot of the things that get people stirred up one day won't stir anybody up on another day. How will all of the emotion and feeling that is in the wind today look just 10 years from now?

Yeah, everything has a shelf life ....... now what were you saying?

ChTatum · #**169** 10-09-2007, 06:25 PM

I have not read this thread. I have a life away from this forum..

"Fallout?" Happens frequently at our church.

CC1 · #**170** 10-09-2007, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by The Shadow

Are you hoping against hope? Many disaffiliated before GC and have simply to turn their license in now. Others have already started the process of disaffiliation and it is only a matter of time. District officials cannot be at all the disaffiliations at one time. I am hearing from very good sources that masses are coming out.

L. Booker, N. Wilson, V. Morton, J. Godair, K Godair, T. Johnson, and all the churches associated with these good men are pulling out. When men heard that these men were pulling out, they stepped up and started the process. Now that there is at least one org. to be formed out of this, there are more that are expressing their desire to come out. I don't the that the UPC was ready for this.

Some men expressed fear of coming out thinking that the UPC will build churches in the city they are in and suck their members out. The UPC does not have that many ministers to replace these churches nor that much funds to do so.

Hallelujah!!!! There is hope for the UPC yet.