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Re: Have You Been to WWPF Lately?
Pressing The Iron,
I know exactly what you are talking about however I have a little different take on it. I also worked with a woman who expressed great disappointment at the exUPC church I attended having moved away from the strict legalistic corporate standards,
Of course she had no interest or intention of ever adhering to them herself just as you mentioned.
I don't think it is so much that these folks are wanting UPC / conservative folks to maintain their dress code as a safety net so they have a place to go if they ever decide to as much as it is more of a quaint respect and admiration for folks who will go to such lengths to "seperate" themselves from society and culture.
Just as I respect some of the more radical Roman Catholics who dedicate their lives to God in monastaries my respect for them does not translate into believing they are doing something neccessary or even biblicaly correct.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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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