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Re: A Loving appeal to those that wear makeup
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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
Come to think of it, growing up, I knew a lot of people who believed that. Didn't believe in reading "the funny papers" either. We had gone really, really liberal when we started reading Calvin and Hobbes.
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The conservative UPC church I grew up in during the 60's and early 70's did not believe in reading comic strips, comic books, Christmas trees, etc.
The pastor was out of Bro. Shoe's (sp?) church in the Dallas area and had actually become quite the "lib" by the time I remember anything as he had moderated to allow hair spray, panty hose, and a few things like that.
However the seeds of liberalism and rebellion were planted in our home as we had a Christmas tree at Christmas time and I read comic books.
The good news was that our pastor was an incredible man with a wonderful sense of humor. When he would come visit around Christmas time and would see our tree he would grin and hold up his hands like he was warding off a vampire. Same thing when he would see me reading one of those evil Superman or Archie comic books. The last time I saw him in person in 1975 at the Ft. Worth UPC General Conference he told me that he knew he had preached and emphasized some things that did not amount to a hill of beans. I was just a teenager at the time and did not feel comfortable asking him to elaborate but years later after he had died I wish I had.
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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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