Originally Posted by TRIPLE E (Post 190304)

TN it is getting more and more difficult as each year passes to distinguish between UPC and non compliant churches!

Originally Posted by TrueNorth (Post 190311)

what is a non-compliant church?

Originally Posted by TrueNorth (Post 190300)

I may be naive but I thought they called it NCC because somebody didn't like the term "Institute" and thought it would be cool to be a college. Never heard anything about government intervention, why would they care unless you were committing fraud?
As for dropping UP from the name - perhaps it was thought that they could bring in Baptist, Wesleyan and PAOC young people? chortle snort - yup that'll work!
Reality is, in NB, call a UP church whatever you want - people are still smart enough to know that it is a UP church, unless of course it is in northern NB where it might take a while to figure out.

Originally Posted by TRIPLE E (Post 190291)

Even on the mighty Miramichi there's a church taking "pentecostal" off their name and replacing it with "community".

Makes me want to find a banjo and fiddle and start singing "The Miramichi Revival" lest we forget.

Originally Posted by The Senator (Post 190341)

Why do you think that they dropped "United Pentecostal" from the name if it wasn't to disassociate the school from its denominational affiliation? Are you suggesting that the UPC is not known in northern NB or that the churches there aren't as strict as those in the south?

Originally Posted by TrueNorth (Post 190354)

Well, let's see, the school is owned by the Atlantic District UPC, requires staff to be UPC, has 99% of its students come from UPC churches, it's pretty hard to disassociate.
Having said that, I think that it was the cool, trendy factor - other Bible Colleges are known as Colleges and not institutes with no denominational inferences in the names - plus if you say you graduated from NCC people will think you have an education.

Originally Posted by ALVIN (Post 189988)

Some people leave the UPC and move on. Other people regurgitate their cud and chew on it so often that they get constipated and can't move on. Some Ex-UPC people could sure use some Ex-Lax.

Originally Posted by ALVIN (Post 190390)

I want to apologize for this post. It doesn't seem near as funny in the light of day as it did late last night. I guess I should learn to use smileys.

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind (Post 190394)

Or you need prunes in your diet.

:aaa