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Originally Posted by ChicagoPastor
Agreed, it's not like a local church, but the UPC has to protect it's best intrest. If there's an outside or inside influence encouraging ministers to leave and join another organization, it'll hurt the UPC financially and number wise. For that matter they have a right to try to block whoever it is.
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Yer not about right, you ARE right! For this very reason, I don't think the double-dippers will be tolerated for long. Every pastor knows that when a saint (or should I say attendee) becomes disgruntled/apathetic/rebellious, etc., the first place you will usually notice a change is in their giving.
On an organizational level, I gather that many cons are questioning how monies are being allocated by FMD and I assume other departments. I have recently received letters promoting an alternative method of giving to missionaries. The idea is to send your money to this independent distributor who will then send 100% of your offerings to the missionary of your choosing-- whether they be UPC, ALJC, or some other OP group--thus ensuring that the missionary is really getting the money. This is a blatant end run around the org's bureacracy, and of course I received this letter soon after GC.
The first thing the Tulsa group will do (if they indeed try to stay in the org and become some sort of lobbying group to turn the org back in their direction) is try to starve the UPC of cash.
I say if you want out, just get out, because the effect this tactic will have is the UPC will then cut off the detracting group and swing even further to the left. The U-cons place in the org will then be quickly filled by U-libs, which I don't think is necessarily a good thing, but it's probably no worse than the other. I'm just not a big fan of extremism on either end. Anyways, in my evermore increasingly humble opinion (haha), the Tulsa group needs to generate a huge, diehard following quickly or they will be nothing more than a
self-marginalized splinter group that the average Apostolic will never know existed 5 years from now.
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