Understood, and your friendship with BP is admirable. But, don't forget, true friendship does not enable wrong behavior. True friendship corrects gently.
Amen. But what do we mean by "gentle correction"?
I believe Bro. Price has some deep emotional issues that the church has failed to address.
I've recently had some marriage problems and felt led to go to a secular counselor. I've discovered that I've suffered from a degree of PTSD and many of my emotional "ups" and "downs" are linked to some of the trauma I've experienced combined with the ongoing, and unsuccessful, "struggle" for wholeness and healing in the church. We often treat those who need help like, "Hey, what's wrong with you, you've got a problem! You need to just get right." Sometimes it's more difficult than that. Many who have had "serious" problems be they marital, emotional, or psychological have turned to the church only to have the church offer "correction", "prayer", or to watch in horror as the very men they turned to black listed them from ministry because, "That brother has problems."
I pray for Bro. Price, that he experiences peace and wholeness. It saddens me that we fail so many because of our "backwoods" mentality. I remember trying to explain this to a pastor and he looked me straight in the eye and said, "We DON'T need any SENSITIVITY training." Well....I respectfully disagree.
I hold/held nothing against BP for any one of his "lapses" in judgement. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. I need all I can get. I don't think he was ever malicious, just misguided and needing help. I pray that he receives mercy and the help he needs!
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"Those who go after the "Sauls" among us often slay the Davids among us." Gene Edwards
I hold/held nothing against BP for any one of his "lapses" in judgement. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. I need all I can get. I don't think he was ever malicious, just misguided and needing help. I pray that he receives mercy and the help he needs!
BP, if you're reading this I would like to make a suggestion. I think that it would be wise to save some of your apologies and reread them the next time you feel the urge to really lash out at any group or individuals. I think that the apologies that I have read from you have been very lucid and in the right spirit and revisiting them will help you keep from going too far in the other direction. I am praying for you and your family.
God Bless,
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
why don't you come on aff for a chat on your current views?
Oh good grief. That plays exactly into his pyschological issues. The need for attention is overwhelming and here you are feeding the problem.
Plus from a practical standpoint if BP were to discuss his "current" views he would have to repost every five minutes!
__________________ "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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