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06-07-2007, 07:05 PM
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Saved & Shaved
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Real quotes... excellent work!!
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06-07-2007, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rico
That guys has make up on so you can forget that notion! LOL
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Rico~ I try to find an image of head spinning around, but the closes one was of Linda Blair.... 
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06-07-2007, 07:08 PM
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Superheros are evil...
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Here ya go...
Charismatic superheros...
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For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! (Gal 5:13-15/ NKJV)
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06-07-2007, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by "GL"
Here ya go...
Charismatic superheros...
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As my new friend Paris Hilton would say..."That's hot"!
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06-07-2007, 07:12 PM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Nunya bidness
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Originally Posted by Berkeley
It's okay if he's in a drama production!  oloroid
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Nope. Not in any true blue UC kinda church. Nope, no way, not now, not ever! 
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06-07-2007, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
Another story a preacher whose name was a household word in the South and pastored as great church and a tremendous preacher. He preached conferences and campmeetings all over the South. He went the liberal route destroyed his church and since then has pastored so-called spirited filled Methodist & Baptist churches. Became a truck driver and was so embittered. But I heard of late he too is coming around churches of his past bemoaning what he has done. But again over 30 years of roaming and caused his own dear mother to die not practicing the teaching of he late husband. He is sorry and if he had it to do over. He saw the bright lights that only existed in his ego driven mind.
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Men backslide and then return to God all the time. There are all kinds of examples of shipwrecks that can be used to prove almost any point you would like.
Such as the UC in North Texas that was so hard on his kids that they all hate him and his idea of church. He wouldn't let his wife go to a doctor for childbirth and the child died. He build a new building out on the highway as a testimony to the community to his stubborn attitudes. You can drive by on Sunday and see his car and maybe one or two more. He has financial resources, so he does care what anyone says or thinks. Not even his sons can reason with him, so now his sons and daughters hate his guts.
He has experience the bright lights of his own ego.
These stories do not prove anything, except that we must all walk humbly before God, and have compassion for those around us.
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06-07-2007, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by crakjak
Men backslide and then return to God all the time. There are all kinds of examples of shipwrecks that can be used to prove almost any point you would like.
Such as the UC in North Texas that was so hard on his kids that they all hate him and his idea of church. He wouldn't let his wife go to a doctor for childbirth and the child died. He build a new building out on the highway as a testimony to the community to his stubborn attitudes. You can drive by on Sunday and see his car and maybe one or two more. He has financial resources, so he does care what anyone says or thinks. Not even his sons can reason with him, so now his sons and daughters hate his guts.
He has experience the bright lights of his own ego.
These stories do not prove anything, except that we must all walk humbly before God, and have compassion for those around us.
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It's just that another story~
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06-07-2007, 07:49 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Ohio
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Originally Posted by Rico
Do those of you that have left the more strict side of Pentecost for a life of enlightenment ever think of going back to what you once were? Do you ever make a comparison and feel that you were more blessed back in your ultr con days? Just thought I'd throw this out for discussion.
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WOW! I am amazed. This thread was started at 4:21 pm and now it's only 8:42 pm and it's 16 pages long!!!
To answer your question: That's an interesting question. I would not even consider going back under the same strict standards. I don't believe they are necessary to please God and that when I did live them, I was only doing it in the hopes of possibly, by some far-reaching miracle, being "good enough" to be saved. In other words, for me, I was trying my best to earn my salvation. Only when I left did I finally understand that nothing that I do will earn salvation. Jesus already paid the price. And that by me trying so hard to do it myself, I am in a sense rejecting what Jesus did. I'm saying to God that Jesus blood was not enough. So NO, I would not go back.
However, I do miss the fellowship. I have some wonderful friends in the UPC who I truly enjoyed fellowshiping with both in church and outside of church. The good news is that I am finding that more and more of them are understanding that I have not rejected GOD. I've only rejected the idea of my works buying my salvation. Our fellowship is good now.
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06-07-2007, 07:53 PM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Originally Posted by Margies3
WOW! I am amazed. This thread was started at 4:21 pm and now it's only 8:42 pm and it's 16 pages long!!!
To answer your question: That's an interesting question. I would not even consider going back under the same strict standards. I don't believe they are necessary to please God and that when I did live them, I was only doing it in the hopes of possibly, by some far-reaching miracle, being "good enough" to be saved. In other words, for me, I was trying my best to earn my salvation. Only when I left did I finally understand that nothing that I do will earn salvation. Jesus already paid the price. And that by me trying so hard to do it myself, I am in a sense rejecting what Jesus did. I'm saying to God that Jesus blood was not enough. So NO, I would not go back.
However, I do miss the fellowship. I have some wonderful friends in the UPC who I truly enjoyed fellowshiping with both in church and outside of church. The good news is that I am finding that more and more of them are understanding that I have not rejected GOD. I've only rejected the idea of my works buying my salvation. Our fellowship is good now. |
Do you still go to an apostolic church? The reason I am asking is because I don't know your story. Not looking for anything to pick over, ok.
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06-07-2007, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Rico
Do you still go to an apostolic church? The reason I am asking is because I don't know your story. Not looking for anything to pick over, ok.
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No, Rico, I don't go to an Apostolic Church. I still believe in One God doctrine, baptism in Jesus' Name, etc. It's a long, complicated story that I'd rather not go into, but I can tell you assuredly, I feel good about where I am at right now and am more confident of my salvation than I have ever been.
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