|
Re: Homestead Heritage
Quote:
Originally Posted by crakjak
If you love being "dominated and lead around by the nose" go ahead and jump right on in. Words that I heard describing the leadership, just today.
We have some ex-HH-ers where I go to church. It is something to behold the bondage coming off them.
|
Exactly. I lived for many years in Texas near them. I lived in Austin when they were there before they started their "community".
Control is the key word with these folks. Everybody who visits their nice little community thinks they are seeing an ideal way of life but the truth is much darker.
I have witnessed first hand the cult like control the leadership has on its members and heard second hand (worked with a lady who had gone to church with Blair and the others before they started their own "thang") a lot of stories about them. If you don't toe the line they are big on excommunication. Oh, and if you don't get excommunicated chances are at some point you will be humilated before the church confessing non existent sins, etc.
__________________
"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"
|
Threaded Mode
