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Re: Return to "standards/notv"?
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Originally Posted by houston
I answered too soon. Yes, people that went worldly/sinful, later to return to their UC church. People that dropped legalism and remained Christian, later to go back into standards, no.
**I am a liberal and there is not much on tv that I can stomach.**
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Exactly! I remember a few years ago either on this forum or one of its predecessors one or two conservatives would post about how they went liberal and then saw the light and became conservative again.
However when I would ask them questions like "while you were "liberal" were you plugged into a church you attended faithfully, did you maintain your prayer life and bible study, etc" they answered no to all of those type questions.
The reality was they had just backslid away from God and started doing some of the things liberals do but for completely different reasons and not because they really believed they were ok to do. It was dishonest of them to portray
their backslidden state as one of becoming a liberal.
The only case of someone going lib and going back to at least semi conservative is a former poster her and her husband who were UPC pastors that left the UPC. Later joined a liberal org., pastored one or two liberal churches, then went back to the UPC. This was not in the United States and we don't need to discuss who this is or specifics as they are very sensitive about the subject. They don't need any waves interfering with their re-found bundage.
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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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