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Re: New trend in Apostolic churches???
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Originally Posted by jaamez
Honest to God, this is true!
I have first-hand knowledge of an Apostolic church where a pastor appointed a "security committee" with men who have concealed carry licenses and is having them carry their concealed weapons to church with them. This, evidently, in response to recent church shootings.
How do you feel about this?
Would you feel safer knowing this to be true?
Would you feel uneasy knowing this to be true?
Is this a symptom of lack of faith in God to fight our battles?
Would you attend a church where you knew this to be the case?
Would this affect you at all or is this just a minor distraction?
Comments please... please don't ask me where this church is or who the pastor is. My goal is not to start trouble for them, but rather to get some different opinions and perspectives.
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I think it is a smart and prudent move. Churches just need to make sure only the most mature and level headed men are tasked to do this though. Don't need any hothead reactionaries.
I think a church is not doing it's duty if it does not take steps to protect the pastor and parishoners from the crazie of this day and age. Church doesn't need to be an amred camp but trained and observant men with concealed weapons serving as ushers or security could prevent a tragedy.
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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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