I don't go there but have visited a couple of times when in Austin and really enjoyed it. It is not a traditional Pentecostal church though so some won't like it.
Randy is a very good teacher / preacher but he is not the typical Pentecostal snorting and yelling red in the face kind.
it is a very laid back and modern type service with contemporary music and the preacher not in a suit at least some if not all of the time.
If your friend prefers a progressive UPC church then Rex Johnson's is not too far away.
Oh, and Randy's church is Promiseland West as opposed to the original Promiseland Church in East Austin pastored by his father Kenneth Phillips.
__________________ "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"
I don't go there but have visited a couple of times when in Austin and really enjoyed it. It is not a traditional Pentecostal church though so some won't like it.
Randy is a very good teacher / preacher but he is not the typical Pentecostal snorting and yelling red in the face kind.
it is a very laid back and modern type service with contemporary music and the preacher not in a suit at least some if not all of the time.
If yoiur friend prefers a progressive UPC church then Rex Johnson's is not too far away.
Oh, and Randy's church is Promiseland West as opposed to the original Promiseland Church in East Austin pastored by his father Kenneth Phillips.
Thanks for the info! I may look into Rex Johnson's for them too.
Have him check out Apostolic Lighthouse UPC in Georgetown (just outside Austin) . Bro Donnie Huslage is pastor there. He isn't a "name" but he is a good pastor and a good guy.
It is a traditional UPC church but they don't beat people up over the outward stuff, they don't play head games, they have a solid home group ministry, I give them 100% endorsement. I don't do that much.
Have him check out Apostolic Lighthouse UPC in Georgetown (just outside Austin) . Bro Donnie Huslage is pastor there. He isn't a "name" but he is a good pastor and a good guy.
It is a traditional UPC church but they don't beat people up over the outward stuff, they don't play head games, they have a solid home group ministry, I give them 100% endorsement. I don't do that much.
Georgetown is a little more than "right outside Austin"!!!! When you leave Austin first you go through Pflugerville, then Round Rock and then you finally get to Georgetown.
__________________ "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"
Georgetown is a little more than "right outside Austin"!!!! When you leave Austin first you go through Pflugerville, then Round Rock and then you finally get to Georgetown.
Hearing those names brings back memories, went to most of my school years in Round Rock, Skateboarded in Pflugerville, jumped off cliffs into a large lakes outside of Georgetown. If I didn't live in California, the Austin area would be most likely where I would live.
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Hearing those names brings back memories, went to most of my school years in Round Rock, Skateboarded in Pflugerville, jumped off cliffs into a large lakes outside of Georgetown. If I didn't live in California, the Austin area would be most likely where I would live.
If you have not been in awhile you would be amazed how that along the interstate from Austin to Georgetown it is just about one continuous stretch of development. Used to you really felt like you were driving to another town when you went from Round Rock to Georgetown.
I agree that Central Texas is a great place. It has just gotten too hot for me though. When I lived there a decade ago we had a few summer days in July and August that were 100+ degrees. Now most of the summer is in the triple digits. Year before last wen I was there in September it was over 100 and was somthing like the ninth day in a row it had been.
__________________ "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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