What do you think of this?

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Originally Posted by freeatlast

Would be nice if God would have given us some specific scripture on this.

Luke 6:31 ("Do unto others...") is a good one.

I don't think there's any pastor who would like to see a fellow pastor targeting members of his congregation to build up his own membership.

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I KNOW of pastors who have put in serious effort to "woo" key people from other churches, because they needed a youth leader or sunday school teacher or just wanted bigger tithes payers. I don't care how you frame that, that is unethical and speaks ill of that pastor's character.

Well said.

Originally Posted by Book 'em Dano

I am talking about an active campaign to get members of one church to join theirs....and you think the thing to do is attack the UPC pastor for being concerned about such actions? Do you think that what that church is doing is spiritually healthy?

Great question.

Originally Posted by Mrs. LPW

DA, perhaps it affects yours?
If this were your multi-cultural church that members were being targetted... you may have a different take on it completely.

Do you ever look at yourself and think... "I might actually be biased here"?

It's easier to see other people's biases than our own. Just human nature.

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Getting back to the topic now....do you have any thoughts on the church and pastor that are actively targeting other Oneness churches to take people from those congregations to enlarge their own?

Do you think such a congregation/Pastor is a healthy one that does that without any care or concern how it might affect the people they are "taking" and the congregation they are dividing?

Bingo.
These questions cut to the core of the issue here.