I found some info on the 1975 UPCI General Conference. It listed within this link attached below.
http://www.ninetyandnine.com/Archive...0430/cover.htm
I stated on this forum once before that my dad stood up in one of the ministers meetings and asked a question about why not TV.
The 1975 Fort Worth Conference is listed in the quotes below that I copied from the site.
Traditionalists
How will the medium of TV adversely affect the message it carries? Will TV corrupt advertising?
If the UPC’s motto is “The Whole Gospel to the Whole World,” doesn’t television advertising (from a technological standpoint) provide one of the most literal ways to reach the whole world? And if it does, and we still don’t use it, how can our organization suggest that that we are doing our best to reach our society?
Isn’t it possible that the UPC is preventing new ministers from joining because they see this issue as “straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel”? With the low numbers of young ministers within the organization, isn’t this a legitimate concern?
Many of those ministers who disagreed with the UPC’s last binding “No TV” vote (in 1975 at Fort Worth, TX) stayed in the organization despite their disagreement. Will you show the same respect for unity within the organization if the vote now goes against your stand?
Reluctant Progressives
When television and the internet become more fully integrated, how will the UPCI deal with this technological reality if something like TV advertising is not adopted now?
Do you foresee a time when TV and/or TV advertising will be adopted? Will the passing of time smooth your adoption of TV? How much time will be needed for this to happen?
What will motivate you to leap forward at the right opportunity, thereby shaking up the status quo?
What has either of the other two groups done to help or hinder you in adopting their (and your) position?
Initiators
Television is a cool medium averse to hot emotions (i.e. preaching). Televangelism has an awful reputation. How would Apostolics on TV change that?
If technology is the necessary future of ministry for all of us, what are you now doing on the internet (and other media) to reach souls?
If TV advertising is a good opportunity to spread the gospel, what’s your public plan to help those in the organization who are at least marginally open to the idea to embrace this opportunity?
What evidence would you offer that advertising or preaching on TV would yield positive results? What is the cost-benefit ratio?
Linear Mode
