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10-15-2012, 02:21 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Why are you being so hostile? These are honest questions.
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I'm goofing around with AreYouReady?
What Ever.
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10-15-2012, 02:27 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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True story. Last week an old friend (UPC minister) called to talk. Told me his wife had left him and that a divorce was next. Shocked, I asked "Why?"
Answer? Porn, masturbation, money spent on internet "dating." She found out and left.
He admitted he had messed up but defended himself with "Well, I don't believe what I did justified divorce."
The conversation eventually played out and right before we disconnected he stated that he had heard I left the UPC, and asked why. I told him of my disagreements with official positions.
This led to a 10 minute lecture comprised of pleas for me to return to "The Truth." "You know what's right," he said, as if I were somehow backslid.
I just listened, realizing nothing I would say could make him realize how warped he is.
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Not surprised in the least. In the UPCI mindset, there is nothing more unforgivable than refusing to enforce man-made traditions on people in the church. Once that line is crossed, there is no coming back.
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10-15-2012, 02:41 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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You are so fortunate you weren't asked to give Gentile foreskins like they do in the LDS.
Is this misinformation?
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I am not sure as to why you ask me this question Brother Benincasa.
All I want to know is was I given the correct information or do the pastors not pay tithes up through the organizational ladder. You see, I do not like being lied to or misinformed about where my money goes. I had and continue to have a right to know where I pay out every single penny and to whom.
Just being a good steward of what God has given to me.
If I was asked to give the foreskin of any man, gentile or jew as payment for anything, ...it wouldn't happen.  
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10-15-2012, 02:42 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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I'm goofing around with AreYouReady?
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Aha! Just goofing around. Ok. I can take that!
My answer is still the same. Just be glad your foreskin wasn't required.
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10-15-2012, 02:44 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
Hey EB, where do you get those neat animations?
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10-15-2012, 03:01 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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I'm goofing around with AreYouReady?
What Ever.
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You sure don't treat people very kind.
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10-15-2012, 05:41 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
No the Pastors of the UPC do not pay tithe up the organizational ladder. Typically a Pastor will pay his tithe to his pastor, or to a deserving ministry. In my case I pay part to the retired pastor of this church and part to evangelists that we have. Trust me....every pastor I know in the UPC pays tithe and then some....usually a lot more.
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10-15-2012, 05:44 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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I'm goofing around with AreYouReady?
What Ever.
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This guy must have been in contact with Biden and caught whatever it was he had! 
Been Thinkin
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10-15-2012, 05:45 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!! 
Been Thinkin
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"From the time you're born, 'til you ride in the hearse, there ain't nothing bad that couldn't be worse!"
LIFE: Some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant!
I have ... Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia! The fear of long words.
"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave in reflection." - Thomas Paine
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10-15-2012, 06:01 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?
That is a good question Adam.
When I was in the UPCI, the other saints, not the pastor told me that we are supposed to pay 10% of all our earnings to the pastor, who then pays his tithes to the district superintendent, who then pays his tithes to the HQ.
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Wow!
Hey AreYouReady!
I need to clean my monitor screen and my glasses, because I thought you had typed EARRINGS instead of EARNINGS.
Please accept my sincerest apologies. 
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