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Originally Posted by aak1972
You are correct and this will be my last post on this. The pastor has turned in his UPC license. And if the vote stands to disafiliate it will cause a church split. The attendance last Sunday was 110. After the split it will be about 60. It will be impossible to keep the doors open. And that is what I am mad about. A pastor comes in and causes a church split and the dream of many saints that have gone on of having a nice representation of PENTECOST will be gone. There is not another church in this city. There is one about 15 miles away. So after 57 years of having a Pentecostal church here there is a good chance it will be gone due to one pastorate.
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Well, don't just blame the pastor. Yes it looks like what he is doing is wrong but God might be using this unfortunate circumstance to free a lot of people from the weight of that building and the stigma in your community that is attached to it. When we left our church we had so many people come to us with their horror stories of our church and how we were perceived. We found out things that would blow your mind. Folks that knew us in the community could never understand how good people were apart of
that church.
I was discussing this situation with someone yesterday that knows this church and the pastor and we both wondered if there will be any significant UPC churches in Mississippi in the next twenty or thirty years. It seems like the average church is around 75 people with an elderly population and the larger churches are going through splits with most of the younger generation leaving to become nondenominational or charismatic.
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