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Originally Posted by pelathais
Most of the bluster is about control and self justification. From my experience it seems as though some "conservatives" have a compulsion to stand up at conferences and to write letters to justify their own salvation.
It's as though they feel they must declare themselves to be holier than the rest of the assembly in order to seal their place in the Kingdom of God. Meanwhile behind closed doors or at private parties they tell obscene jokes and gossip and backbite like school girls.
For their own good, for the real salvation of their own souls, we must do all that we can to help these "conservatives" to see that they can have no place in the Kingdom of God without Jesus justifying them and accounting them holy. Otherwise, all of their bluster, speeches, letters and articles are just filthy rags.
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I appreciate your suggestions here, but I consider myself conservative. I am personally not in favor of the TV thing, don't have one and haven't had one since I've been in church. I don't think that everyone who is anti-TV is self righteous or self-justifying. I just don't understand the "I'm going to pull out if TV passes" mentality. As I said before, there are ALREADY things that UPC does and allows that conservative men have been against for years. But the Con's have held their stance in spite of what the UPC does. Why can't they do the same here? i.e. keep their anti TV stance, vote, and then whatever happens just keep preaching what they believe in their own churches? Again, I am boggled by the mentality.
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