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Re: Am I being asked to leave?
I think Elder Epley's connections to those outside his paradigm from this forum and its predecessors have hurt him in real life.
Some silly people not mature enough to understand that having lunch with a lib or your picture taken with one doesn't mean you are compromising your beliefs can create trouble.
For that reason and that reason alone I would not have blamed him for leaving AFF. I think it is to his credit he had not let that kind of outside ridicule or criticism determine his course of action like some other ultra cons have.
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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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