Just Wondering.....

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Originally Posted by LadyCoonskinner

If you did not have the pressure to line up so you could have either your church, position, income or family acceptance.
Trust me you would look back and see that much of what you call the bullet proof gospel was more of a spell than gospel...

Here is the quote.....

I think you need to look back at what I responded to.

Once again I can assure you that you would not say anything on this forum.

That would be against anything in the manual.

Because that is your association.

I brought that out as your church, position, friends, income and family.

Why was that brought into the message?

Because if and when you leave the mothership.

You fear you would lose your church, friends, finances and in some cases family.

The idea of the "spell' over the gospel.

Was not in reference to the oneness of God nor Acts 2:38 message.

It was a direct reference to the concept of standards.

My father was told by the UPCI, state of Virginia board that he would lose his card if he preached again for Bro Frank Tamel in Wisconsin.

The church in Wisconsin had just started out of another assembly back in the early 1970's.

Bro Tamel had stopped by our house in Richmond to seek my dad's advice as to starting the church.

My father commented to him, "The Lord places the call". "Not man".

At the General conference that year.

It may have been Miami.

Many men told my father it may get tight for you Bro.

Because of the stance you are taking.

Well he got called in before the board.

Their decision was that he was not supposed to preach at the church for the next 18 months.

My father told the men in the meeting.

Fine the Lord does the calling.

Here is my card, thanks for your support.

Before he left the room they gave him the ok to continue to preach at the church.

Over the next 5 years he preached some 60 times at the church.

He was the only evangelist to peach there for the first few years.

That is why after his death in 1978, we moved to WI in 1980.

I still personally live in Oak Creek, WI.

What came of the church.

It became the largest church in Wisconsin.

My dad was warned of the idea of you will lose your friends, your status, your income....

Hello!!!! That was the basis from which I drew the reference.

Many will never speak their minds and in some cases I see anger from them.

I think because they wish they had the same guts to cut and run....