Re: Why Do You Hang Around Here?
My in-laws left the UPC because of some things that were going on in a church that they just couldn't overlook. At the time, they had 2 teenagers still at home. My inlaws didn't go out and start living 'in the world', but they did attend an independant church with no other teenagers. One of the things that killed me, was seeing what was done to the kids (by the 'saints').
The 'saints' kids were told by the pastor to have NOTHING to do with them, and so they literally lost every friend they had ever grown up with. Even adults would make a point of walking the other way in the grocery store.
It was enough to make your heart ache. Neither one of them are really living for God today.
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Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
"You will be hated for my sake-Just remember that it should be for MY sake and not YOURS-
Do NOT act in such a way as to be offensive, and then blame it on me"
Love, God
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