I don't know, I've been going to "sporing" event my whole life...
Sporting events as in hockey? both of the pastor's sons played high school hockey in the 50's...no one questioned it to my knowledge.
What's my point? There were "normal" UPC churches in the 50's without lots of manmade "stuff". Notice I didn't say no manmade rules.....but it wasn't the focus.
Alot of what we heard or later "inherited" were standards based on legalism from other pastors,churches, saints that moved there....but our pastor was not a puppet.
He was born in Persia and raised in Canada; a very good man.
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"Le sens commun n'est pas si commun."
(Common sense is not so common.)
Voltaire
Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
I heard Marvin Hicks one time talking about an evangelist,that taught agains't reading newspapers and such,this fellow taught that the bible was the only book that should be read.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
I heard Marvin Hicks one time talking about an evangelist,that taught agains't reading newspapers and such,this fellow taught that the bible was the only book that should be read.
I sat under a preacher once who confessed that reading a newspaper had left him feeling convicted... so he quit reading newspapers for a year. No TV, no radio and no newspapers - no Internet even available yet.
He wanted all of us to join together with him in this "fast."
I sat under a preacher once who confessed that reading a newspaper had left him feeling convicted... so he quit reading newspapers for a year. No TV, no radio and no newspapers - no Internet even available yet.
He wanted all of us to join together with him in this "fast."
And a year later all the men's wives have left them and are now part of his inner circle because "Despite my protests, GOD told me to take them as a sign of their commitment to Him".
Soon after, National Geographic will be filming a documentary on the new "village" and the exulted leader.
True Pentecostals do not believe in owning or riding horses.
Actually CC1, some of these "Ole Time" preachers' and peoples' attitude toward you is a shining example of how irrelevant and out of touch "ole time pentecost" is.
I've read over the last six years going back to AFF where you've been called a liberal and one who would let anything go, probably even down to orgies because of course, if you don't toe the line like they do, you're liable to let ANYTHING go on in your life.
And heck, as far as political views, you're a true-blue right-wing reactionary.
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