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Originally Posted by Apocrypha
There are a TON of ex-UPCI churches that are doing just fine that wouldn't meet your criteria.
The Jones brothers are exploding in growth with Grace Church of Humble.
Church of Champions / Wendell Hutchins is growing at a fast clip in Champion Forest.
Spring Tabernacle in Spring, TX is doing great and growing.
even the more Chari-costal former UPCI folks like Richard Heard are doing good and still have the Holy Spririt of God fall in a powerful way just like in your church.
All those churches are less than a 30 minute drive from yours in Katy and doing just fine... not to count the hundreds (if not thousand+) churches who have left, modified themselves and are doing great.
Your attitude is wrong and not founded in reality by attendance or water/spirit baptisms in various churches that have left. I can name 10+ NON-GROWING UPCI churches in various Houston suburbs that are pretty much dead weight as far as the gospel message of evangelism goes. It goes both ways, many of the UPCI churches in your area are collectors and swappers of people who are already saved. If it hadn't been for TBC feeding the local churches for years with fresh blood Houston would be a much smaller area. Now Lufkin's churches are feeding on the folks who don't leave to expand the kingdom. Same way it is in Indianapolis, Saint Louis and Stockton feeder churches.
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Sorry for this misunderstanding...Who's talking about "growth in numbers"?...what does that have to do with right doctrine? Lakewood is the largest church in America but they do not preach what the Apostles preached.
Even Hell is having dynamic growth...I'd rather attend one of those small churches that are following the Apostles Doctrine. Noah had a "dead non-growing church" too...well...at least for a while.
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