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Re: **preacher forums**
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Originally Posted by Charnock
Providing haven means to offer sanctuary or protection.
The unnamed forum routinely boots men for "not believing the message," and the message includes the laundry list of 60 year old standards. Yet, for some odd reason, adulterers are allowed to stay and post.
Further, the guys that don't believe "the message," are excoriated endlessly while any mention of the gross sin of the ones doing the excoriating is taboo, and deleted immediately.
So I asked myself, "What is being promoted here?" The answer is clear. Adultery is preferable, and entirely more tolerable than not preaching "the message."
In fact, that exact sentiment has been expressed on this thread by bishoph.
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It is a huge leap of logic (much like the pretzel logic of old time Pentecost) to say that because a conservative forum doesn't air the failures of members it is a "haven".
In fact quite the contrary. I believe that when gross sin is discovered in their membership they have booted the parties involved. How in the world is that a "haven"? Poor logic on your part.
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"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"
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