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01-22-2012, 09:04 PM
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Visited a non UPC church
We visited our first non UPC church yesterday. It's a Sabbath keeping church with service at 4 pm on Saturday, that was kinda nice. It was really far and we had to fight traffic and got there 30 mins late. The music was still going and I think it was the Lord that we got behind a wreck because I would have had a headache for days if we'd been there for all the music which was a little driving for my taste. Getting used to seeing women in pants in church was weird. Nobody really had short hair but it was scissor cut. It turned out to actually be a youth service, hence the awful music lol. We stayed anyway and it really blessed us. Even my husband who is much more dyed in the wool Apostolic then me said he enjoyed the service. They were very sincere, the bible was the main focus of preaching that while lively was not nutso... No slobbering, sweating, screaming or panting. Before the alter service those seeking prayer asked for it in the simplest terms i.e. 'for my job situation, for my marriage, for a sin I am struggling with, etc.' One kid said 'I'd like to know Jesus'. Then they came down front to be prayed with. Everyone was able to come pray with those needing prayer but no one was mobbed, shaken or had their ear screamed in. During the altar call at the end of service they took the volume of the music down to almost inaudible so that people could pray and actually hear each other, I liked that part a lot. Although the holy spirit was talked about and tongues are accepted as a gift (per their doctrinal statement) there was not a huge focus on getting those praying to speak in tongues.
The people were very friendly after service and we got to visit some before leaving to come home. There is another church of the same denomination nearer to us but we did not want to go somewhere close to home at first because we don't want to fill out visitor cards or have someone want to follow up or any of that yet, we're just not ready. But we do feel a little better about it now and may visit the closer church next week. Please be in prayer for us. Thanks.
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01-22-2012, 09:10 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
Interesting... Our church has a UPC pastor, but at any given service there are lots of women in jeans/pants and cut hair so that in itself would not be weird... Though they aren't leading service etc.
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01-22-2012, 09:27 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
Are pants and cut hair obstacles to salvation???
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01-25-2012, 02:25 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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Are pants and cut hair obstacles to salvation???
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Oh the many stories that have been told of women who just could not pray through to receiving the Holy Ghost until they threw away their pants!
Maybe there is something to it.
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01-25-2012, 02:35 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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Oh the many stories that have been told of women who just could not pray through to receiving the Holy Ghost until they threw away their pants!
Maybe there is something to it.
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And maybe in their mind they couldn't yield to the Holy Ghost because they were told they would not receive the Holy Ghost until they threw away their pants?
How would you explain the millions of Christian women who have the Holy Ghost and wear slacks? Now be careful here if you answer.
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01-25-2012, 07:06 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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And maybe in their mind they couldn't yield to the Holy Ghost because they were told they would not receive the Holy Ghost until they threw away their pants?
How would you explain the millions of Christian women who have the Holy Ghost and wear slacks? Now be careful here if you answer.
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The only way to be careful is to not answer.
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01-25-2012, 09:03 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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And maybe in their mind they couldn't yield to the Holy Ghost because they were told they would not receive the Holy Ghost until they threw away their pants?
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That's even more funny....
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01-25-2012, 09:01 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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Oh the many stories that have been told of women who just could not pray through to receiving the Holy Ghost until they threw away their pants!
Maybe there is something to it.
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That's funny!
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01-22-2012, 09:28 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Interesting... Our church has a UPC pastor, but at any given service there are lots of women in jeans/pants and cut hair so that in itself would not be weird... Though they aren't leading service etc.
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Can you explain please... are you saying that they are members in good standing and have cut hair and pants or are they just visitors who haven't 'learned' the right ways yet? Does your church have platform requirements? Ours were mid calf no slit skirts, hose, black and white preferred although colors were allowed in the choir the praise team pretty much always stuck to the rules. Suits strongly preferred for men. Seeing a woman in jeans on the platform was very... different.
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01-22-2012, 10:54 PM
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Re: Visited a non UPC church
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Can you explain please... are you saying that they are members in good standing and have cut hair and pants or are they just visitors who haven't 'learned' the right ways yet? Does your church have platform requirements? Ours were mid calf no slit skirts, hose, black and white preferred although colors were allowed in the choir the praise team pretty much always stuck to the rules. Suits strongly preferred for men. Seeing a woman in jeans on the platform was very... different.
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No, I don't know that they are "members" at all though it's noteworthy that many churches consider anyone who attends regularly voting members if they also make regular financial contributions. This was the case at a couple churches I have attended in the past. We have a more formal membership application though I am not sure how closely it's followed.
Some of the ones I mention are visitors but some are not. If I were guessing perhaps 25% of the ladies in any given service have cut hair, or wear (non-typical upc) jewelry or wear bifurcated garments.  Having said that, it is not endorsed and they would typically not have a leading/teaching role. There are some platform requirements.
You had not originally mentioned that they were on the platform.
"Getting used to seeing women in pants in church was weird. Nobody really had short hair but it was scissor cut."
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I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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