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08-25-2008, 11:58 AM
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Re: Letter from Bro. Chester Wright to Bro. Haney
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Originally Posted by ManOfWord
One of the problems, as I see, it that the UPC has set itself up as judge and jury of every other Christian and movement on the face of the earth. They have set themselves up as the receivers, holders and protectors of the "holy grail" of salvation & sanctification doctrine. Therefore, no one else is right enough, holy enough or pure enough (outside of them) to really reach the world.
It is one thing to claim special revelation, even about the godhead etc, and then try to spread that wonderful news. It is completely another thing to state that everyone else who doesn't accept that revelation is going straight to hell, not passing "go" etc.
So when someone like me, who still preaches Ac. 2:38, but is a one stepper comes along, I'm a wishy washy compromiser who loves trinitarians etc, etc. My Youth pastor wear jeans on the platform, has a 3 day growth of a beard and plays electric guitar and really seems to enjoy it as well.
Some can't stand that and would rather be someplace where all of that is relegated to the camp of the devil and criticized as worldly etc. Fine....as Carp said, write the epitaph...."I will not be, I will not be moved" and God will move on as He has done throughout history all the while the little group has bemoaned how things are not as they used to be. When the CLOUD moves, follow it or all you'll have left is rotten worm infested manna. The principles of the word of God don't change like righteousness, holiness, Christ-likeness etc. Methods do. And I'll take a sold out young person in jeans and a 3 day old growth beard any day over a self-righteous bigot who thinks that they're better than everyone else.
In the church I pastor, everyone is welcome! People find Jesus, get delivered, grow in the word, and struggle with their flesh just like every other church on the planet. Women wear pants make up etc. Sexual impurity is not rampant and people aren't getting drunk except in the Spirit every now and then.
The bottom line is reaching the lost! Relevant, irrelevant, lib or con....just reach the lost and leave the rest to Jesus! If the UPC would spend a 10th of the time it does riding the fences it would double over night. Sadly, though, I don't think that is going to happen, because too many people are worried about someone's 3 day beard growth and jeans with an untucked shirt trying to be relevant! The Lord must truly weep when He sees the condition of our world and the fights which take place IN the church instead of fighting the devil outside the church. 
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Great Post MOW, I took a look around the congregation during the preaching yesterday and observed 3-400 people. It kind of made me sigh and like I said, I got pretty frustrated and disappointed how in the same breath it was being said that, "...there needs to be a church in this city that holds (the standard, righteousness, the things of God sacred, etc.)" and that God hates (all the stuff I mentioned).
There will be a church in the city of .00045 people (compared to the population) who expects to reach the city...with very specific, limited, and exclusive parameters?
Give me a break, they don't want to reach the city, they want to be exclusive IN the city with their .00045 people (450/1000000). ...gimme that old time religion, gimme that old time religion, gimme that old time religion, its good enough for us to maintain our .00045 (or .045%).
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