__________________ "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"
My favorite hair story is from around the very early 1980's. Probably 1981 or 1982. My wife and I were in Jackson, MS for the annual big National Music Ministry Conference along with a few thousand other Pentecostals.
When we were in a store at the mall waiting on an elevator we saw heads suddenly snapping around and looks of amazement and shock on fellow shoppers faces. When we turned to see what they were looking at we saw a very classily dressed UPC couple walking toward us.
The were both dressed very nicely with the man having on a well fitting suit and the woman a very classy and pretty dress.
The head turner was the woman's hair. It was truly a "beehive" hairdo. By that I mean it was somehow extremely smoothly (think cotton candy here) fixed so that it began at her scalp and rose, shaped like a cone, a good two feet up, getting smaller as it went up. There were no curls just this smooth mass of hair rising to an incredible height.
For you old timers it looked EXACTLY like the "Coneheads" on Saturday Night Live at the time. The Coneheads were characters in SNL skits. They were aliens from another planet wth heads shaped like cones and this woman's hair made her head appear EXACTLY as those characters looked. I am guessing this must have been what was going through peoples minds as they suppressed laughs and turned their heads away to hide grins.
The sad thing is that this man and woman obvoiusly knew all of the head turning going on and they both walked by with proud, almost smug looks on their faces like they were saying " yes look at our glorious selfs you poor unwahsed and unclean heatherns".
I just can't believe that somebody, somewhere whom this woman trusted would not tell her she looked like a moron and was not reflecting any glory for God in any way, shape or fashion.
__________________ "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"
Good grief everyone! It was supposed to be funny! I was in a serious mood when I posted it so I said "interesting," but this morning I am laughing.
I can imagine that everytime I see a woman with "megaddlela" (hair in a beehive) I will remember this and smile. It is not like it is a new foundation doctrine!
Good grief everyone! It was supposed to be funny! I was in a serious mood when I posted it so I said "interesting," but this morning I am laughing.
I can imagine that everytime I see a woman with "megaddlela" (hair in a beehive) I will remember this and smile. It is not like it is a new foundation doctrine!
There will always be the extremes, one way or another. If you want to see
some extremes, look at the music world and look at Hollywood.
Yes, there are extremes in the church world. But I have seen the end of
enough of the extreme in the church world to know that I do not want to
be on either end of the extreme. I have seen the lax and I have seen the
super-(so-called) spiritual. I don't find either place attractive!!!
There will always be the extremes, one way or another. If you want to see
some extremes, look at the music world and look at Hollywood.
Yes, there are extremes in the church world. But I have seen the end of
enough of the extreme in the church world to know that I do not want to
be on either end of the extreme. I have seen the lax and I have seen the
super-(so-called) spiritual. I don't find either place attractive!!!
Blessings,
Falla39
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Good grief everyone! It was supposed to be funny! I was in a serious mood when I posted it so I said "interesting," but this morning I am laughing.
I can imagine that everytime I see a woman with "megaddlela" (hair in a beehive) I will remember this and smile. It is not like it is a new foundation doctrine!
I don't think you could make something up that's outrageous enough that nobody would believe you're serious. Not here on AFF, anyway!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
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