Texas Tornado Over Pastor with TV

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Yes it most certainly does OUR application (not the UPC) defintely says WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PP meant that it doesn't settle the issue .... there are still loopholes.

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Yes it most certainly does OUR application (not the UPC) defintely says WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay with me Bro. I know this is hard for a UC to grasp. When you watch a computer screen that is playing hollywood programming, it is not TV!

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

It's called a mouse.

That settles it ....BOOM has a TV-enabled computer.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Would a zoo be a worldly amusement?
Trip to the Smokeys a worldly amusement?
Boating on the lake or river a worldly amusement?
Watching a parade a worldy amusement?

So to me it is not defined and must be defined by the ministry.

Why do you think it is the /ministry's/ right/responsibility to define it? I think that the scripture teaches born again believers to "work out their own salvation with fear and trembling".

Paul calls saints to grow to maturity and what may be a weight or hinderance to one may not be so to another. To give all the control to the /ministry/ takes away the control of God on individual's lives, and also interferes with the Biblical hierarchy for the home...which is the husband's mandated responsibility.

Blessings, Rhoni

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

Why do you think it is the /ministry's/ right/responsibility to define it? I think that the scripture teaches born again believers to "work out their own salvation with fear and trembling".

Paul calls saints to grow to maturity and what may be a weight or hinderance to one may not be so to another. To give all the control to the /ministry/ takes awya the control of God on individual's lives, and also interferes with the Biblical hierarchy for the home...which is the husband's mandated responsibility.

Blessings, Rhoni

What a novel concept ... the priesthood of all believers.

[Trouvere]

Hey Elder Epley,
When I go to the Smokies I hike.Nothing worldly about that.However its good for me.I go to WORLDLY Subway and get a sandwich before hiking to each water fall I have the energy and sunup to make it to.I love it.

[Rhymis]

I hope they televise this compromiser's trial - so that others may fear.

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Rhymis

I hope they televise this compromiser's trial - so that others may fear.

So do I .... it would be the figurative final nail in the UC coffin.

[Rhoni]

I remember, back in the day, that the young ladies in our church were not able to wear maxi dresses [even though they were more modest than the knee length styles] until after the Pastor's daughter did so.

I also remember not being allowed to go to King's Island or Cedar point until the Pastor's son talked his father into it and took us all for the first time as a group.

There was absolutely no divorce allowed or preached even as far as the 'innocent party' doctrine until after the Pastor's daughter got a divorce and married the most elligible evangelist.

I think that the ministry takes too much responsibility on themselves which actually sets themselves up for a fall from the pedestal.

Just my opinion as seen through the veil of my past experience.

Blessings, Rhoni

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Stay with me Bro. I know this is hard for a UC to grasp. When you watch a computer screen that is playing hollywood programming, it is not TV!

Our manual also mentions any type of Hollywood or commercial film as seen on television or at the theater. So it would be covered on whatever I watched it on.