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Re: Ministers in Adultery
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Originally Posted by seguidordejesus
I love it when their time of restoration includes living with the new woman, then when they're restored, they move back in with their original wife and start a new charismatic church (b/c being liberated in one way liberates in every way apparently) in the same town as the church they just left, and email all the old members to come join them  |
I know what you mean. I think when a preacher has a huge moral failure like sexual sin they can truly come face to face for the first time with their own human weakness in a major way and their need for the grace of God can change their theological view of grace, legalism, etc.
However I think just as many and maybe even more simply become libs because preaching is the only thing they know how to do and they know being an independent charismatic will allow them to continue doing that and keep the $$$ coming in. I am always leery of preachers whose theology changes suddenly.
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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"
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"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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