The majority UPC churches are moderate liberal leaning churches. Just saying.
I agree completely with this, at least compared to our experiences in the 80's. Of course "majority" doesn't mean "all". There are certainly districts where things are exactly how I remember them being 20 years ago (by having watched web casts of services and talking to people there, etc).
I agree completely with this, at least compared to our experiences in the 80's. Of course "majority" doesn't mean "all". There are certainly districts where things are exactly how I remember them being 20 years ago (by having watched web casts of services and talking to people there, etc).
This is all very relative. I understand where you are coming from. But my Dad believes in American Indian Spirituality. My Mom is a Catholic. My sister is a Bhuddist and my brother goes to the bar.
The UPC is extremely conservative! LOL!
If I went back to the UPC, my family would be very upset, I suspect.
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The majority UPC churches are moderate liberal leaning churches. Just saying.
Bro E,
Did u attend my Uncles church at one time? U look very familiar. When my husband and I went to the Adams family reunion that was headed by Angela and Paul, we traveled to the south to attend. We went to church that night as we had promised my Uncle BeBe that we would come. Seems like I have seen you b4. Btw....BIG turn out for the FR.....I had no idea there were over 368 of us Adams' + kin.....
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I feel like your post could have been written by my husband and myself. We left the UPC about two years ago and have visited a lot of different churches in that time, as you have. And I was amazed to hear how you were turned off by the Word of Faith/Prosperity doctrine in the ex-UPC churches, as we were. It was sickening actually to visit some of these churches and see the prosperity doctrine in action.
So then we, like you, began going to some of the more Bible-based churches because their teaching at least was for the most part on target... except of course for the teaching of baptism in Jesus name, and Oneness, two doctrines that are so Biblical, and yet most of the church world refuses to acknowledge.
If we could have found a moderate UPC church that taught personal holiness standards without the cut/uncut hair doctrine along with the clothesline stuff, along with being post-trib (which has become important to us as we have studied the Word and saw that as a very important part of the Word), and understanding that giving is a biblical principle instead of tithing... then we would indeed feel like we could be a part of such a group.
Jason, as a minister of the gospel, could it be that God is calling YOU to start a fellowship in your own home that could eventually branch out, and become a more moderate church in your area? I understand your girls need fellowship... and that is our concern too about our teenage children, but God knows how to supply all our needs. He has done it for us.
This is what the Lord has done for us. We have house church in our home with two other families who believe in the oneness, Jesus baptism, and infilling of the Holy Ghost with personal holiness standards led by the husband of the home (and we have a new family visiting whom we are teaching salvation to having never heard this message before! So exciting!)
We get together to worship the Lord, fellowship, and share. Our children are able to share their thoughts and questions in the fellowship, and it has been a huge time of growth for us all. Sundays are the best day of the week for us, as we meet to eat a meal together (potluck) and then gather in our living room and sing worship songs, which include praise, clapping, worship, and a time or two, there has been liberty to dance unto the Lord... it has been a beautiful thing... and most of all... it is a Biblical concept that Acts embraces... and it works!
Feel free to PM me if you'd like to visit more about this. Again, I feel like I could've written your post! But the Lord is faithful to lead and guide us!!!
May the sun bring you new energy by day, the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life~
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Tim-may!!
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