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Originally Posted by scotty
Did we think it wouldn't be this way? I mean really?
It is sad, I hate to see them go all in the name of conservatism. The org is shifting away from an all exclusive belief. Its about time, I remember when we kept to ourselves because everyone else was sin to be around. Now the UPC is changing to a more social org. Its ok to talk to the lost. There is no change in the plan of salvation, just how we present it to the world.
Sure, many will go, but how many will stay??
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I liken it to the process of childbirth.
Childbirth is a difficult, often painful process, but when the child is born, everyone's happy and smiling afterward.
Similarly, when God is birthing a new thing in the spirit realm, it often will cause upheaval and even division among His body of believers, but when all is said and done, the Kingdom is better off for it.
In the end, this may end up being
addition by subtraction, to the glory of God.