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Re: 2011 - 2012 United Pentecostal Church Report
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Originally Posted by Jay
The GC voted to allow individuals and pastors to follow their conscience on this topic. They no longer actually take a stand for or against members serving in the military. They still condone members being conscientious objectors. They gave a number of reasons for doing so, and I personally feel that this was the correct move to make.
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If this is correct I am also pleased they have stepped back from the pacifist only stance and are allowing pastors to preach their own understanding and conviction in this matter.
Suffice it to say the United States of America would not exist if that pacifist position prevailed. I personally think it is a travesty and not biblical.
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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"
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"
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