Is TV now the norm in the UPCI home?

[Sasha]

Personally, I don't have much respect for people who preach strongly against TV but have the internet.

[houston]

Originally Posted by Sasha

Personally, I don't have much respect for people who preach strongly against TV but have the internet.

[Broseanrichard]

My main issue with this is will the Upci let other stuff go too over time. If TV is let in does anyone think that is a reason to fine another oneness church that still teaches on TV even if it were a 1 1/2 hour drive to get there if you had strong convections on it? I understand we as saints can keep it out but to sit under a group that allows it would seem like a double standard to me

[webe123]

Originally Posted by Sasha

Personally, I don't have much respect for people who preach strongly against TV but have the internet.

YOU HAD BETTER BELIEVE IT!

These people that are supposedly so "holy" that preach against TV but have the internet on some kind of a pedistal, are to me, some of the WORST hypocrytes imaginable!

Not saying you have to go to a "dirty" site with nudity on the internet...you CAN go to a clean site that has no nudity, but at the SAME TIME....there IS a channel switcher on a TV too!

Yes there is a lot of garbage on TV...BUT THERE IS WAY MORE GARBAGE ON THE INTERNET!

These people that are so "Holy" had better wake up and smell the coffee!

If you are going to preach against the dangers of ONE...at LEAST try to be FAIR and preach against the dangers of the other too!

That is the very least you can do!

And all of THIS coming from someone in the UPCI for over 20 years!

[returnman]

Originally Posted by Broseanrichard

My main issue with this is will the Upci let other stuff go too over time. If TV is let in does anyone think that is a reason to fine another oneness church that still teaches on TV even if it were a 1 1/2 hour drive to get there if you had strong convections on it? I understand we as saints can keep it out but to sit under a group that allows it would seem like a double standard to me

This sounds like more of a statement I would have heard in the mid-eighties. I don't attend OP church anymore but one of the last message I heard bro. Booker preach (CD). He made the statement that pastors/preachers couldn't possibly cover everything anymore that needed to be said about where and what to do. I sort of broadened my own application of that to mean regardless of TV, internet, etc. I have to be the one to have enough wisdom and discernment to avoid those things which might harm my soul.

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by Broseanrichard

My main issue with this is will the Upci let other stuff go too over time. If TV is let in does anyone think that is a reason to fine another oneness church that still teaches on TV even if it were a 1 1/2 hour drive to get there if you had strong convections on it? I understand we as saints can keep it out but to sit under a group that allows it would seem like a double standard to me

Yep. It all started when they allowed radio, red dresses and open toed shoes. Now look where they are. Next thing you know they'll just be plain charismatic!

What exactly are your objections to TV that apparently don't apply to the internet?

Do you know anyone who has gotten a divorce from being on the internet? How about from watching TV?

I can name you PASTORS and OFFICIALS who are no longer....because of the internet. Yet I can't think of a single person, even the peon saints, who have left their spouse because of TV.

[omargarcia]

UPCI still preaches against TV. I went to a seminar in 2012 for a local minister license and the question about TV was there on the first page. Fortunately I had lost my cable connection 3 months before and I did not have to lie. My former Pastor nonetheless has at least 3 TVs, but none in the living room or any visible part of his house. He complained that the other Pastors of the District watched TV shows on their computers. The whole thing is hypocritical

[AR Pastor]

I pastor a UPC church as far as I know there are n TV's in our church. We still preach against Hollywood and movies in any form. Also preach against TV programing from any device.

So of us still stand for holiness and live it

[kclee4jc]

Originally Posted by AR Pastor

I pastor a UPC church as far as I know there are n TV's in our church. We still preach against Hollywood and movies in any form. Also preach against TV programing from any device.

So of us still stand for holiness and live it

Praise God!

[Walks_in_islam]

Declaring "holiness" in the context of "NO TV" on the internet is beyond funny