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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Originally Posted by Hizzangel
I have a batchelor's and two masters. I've got a pretty good head on my shoulders. Some Apostolics are the most judgmental, arrorgant.... Kick em' while they're down, people that I have ever met. It goes against everything we were ever taught we should be. Very sad.
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I don't doubt your educational credentials. We clearly disagree on the subject of totally ignoring massive moral failures where people live double lives for an extended period of time.
You are just looking for a quick "I am sorry and have repented" then will put the person immediately back in leadership and follow the person with full confidence.
I don't find anywhere in the Bible it tells us to do that. Forgiving has nothing to do with forgetting. The Bible is quite clear on the requirements for church leadership.
As I have said repeatedly I will gladly fellowship with, love, and be friends with a preacher who has failed. I will also declare him a brother and not question his salvation. However doing all of that in no way means I will or should accept him back into a leadership position without an extended time of proving himself trustworthy.
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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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