WPF unraveling????

[Tim Rutledge]

Originally Posted by Dora

I'm actually thrilled that they finally decided to go their own way. They were so stinkin' disgruntled with the UPC and were constantly sniping and making things difficult for their fellow ministers in the district. It's probably for the best that they took their negativity and went their own way. Lord bless 'em real good.

time will tell.

[TCSQ]

Originally Posted by Dora

Ha! Creates funny pictures in my mind!

Doesn't it though??? And then you know what happened next????

Brother Booker was fumbling in his pocket trying to get his car keys out so his wife could drive him to the emergency room, but he dropped them on the pavement.

Quick as a wink, Sister Godair (Some one who was there saw all of this ) bent down and SCOOPED them right up off the pavement, ran and barricaded herself inside Brother Bookers Car!!!!

Then Sister Booker bent down and scooped up Brother Godairs tooth (A FRONT tooth!) from the ground and ran off with it, Brother Godair chasing her all through the Hilton Hotel Lobby screaming "GIVE ME BACK MY TOOTH!!!! GIVE ME BACK MY TOOTH!!!!!!!!" Sister Booker caught one of those glass elevators to the top floor of the atrium, then took the tooth and hurled it into space, it landed in the wishing well in the center of the lobby it took three preachers two hours to find it!

That's the real reason Brother Godair is resigning! He's just plum MAD about the whole deal! I know, I was there and I didn't see it!

[Baron1710]

Organizations built around the member’s inability to compromise are doomed to splinter. I know, I know...this group thinks compromise is a bad word, which is exactly why they will splinter. This organization is built around the idea that TV cannot be used as a tool to preach the Gospel. Great foundation.

[TCSQ]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

Organizations built around the member’s inability to compromise are doomed to splinter. I know, I know...this group thinks compromise is a bad word, which is exactly why they will splinter. This organization is built around the idea that TV cannot be used as a tool to preach the Gospel. Great foundation.

Do you HONESTLY think that this organization is "Built around the idea that TV cannot be used as a tool to preach the gospel."? That may be a general observation or opinion among many if not all the members, but I can assure you that that has virtually NOTHING to do with men uprooting decades if not whole lifetimes spent in the UPC to form an alternative to it. The reasons for the WWPF are probably as diverse as the men who belong to it. the issue you point to being merely what was for many of them a LONG time ago decided on personally in an almost universal case by case as a LAST straw type signal or consideration resulting in their inability to continue with an organization that they felt was heading in a direction that they did not want to go in.

It would be like saying that the whole reason that the Colonies declared independence from Great Britain was because of the tax on their tea.

The reasons for ANY major shift in individual or group dynamics are many and never as simple as the "They dun it 'causa tv" type thinking expressed in the post above.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by TCSQ

Do you HONESTLY think that this organization is "Built around the idea that TV cannot be used as a tool to preach the gospel."? That may be a general observation or opinion among many if not all the members, but I can assure you that that has virtually NOTHING to do with men uprooting decades if not whole lifetimes spent in the UPC to form an alternative to it. The reasons for the WWPF are probably as diverse as the men who belong to it. the issue you point to being merely what was for many of them a LONG time ago decided on personally in an almost universal case by case as a LAST straw type signal or consideration resulting in their inability to continue with an organization that they felt was heading in a direction that they did not want to go in.

It would be like saying that the whole reason that the Colonies declared independence from Great Britain was because of the tax on their tea.

The reasons for ANY major shift in individual or group dynamics are many and never as simple as the "They dun it 'causa tv" type thinking expressed in the post above.

There was no major shift in thinking, they just no longer had the influence, or the ability to bully in some cases, to force an entire organization to surrender to their dictates. It's the same "I'm taking my ball and going home" attitude most in this group have always had.

[StillStanding]

Originally Posted by Dora

I'm actually thrilled that they finally decided to go their own way. They were so stinkin' disgruntled with the UPC and were constantly sniping and making things difficult for their fellow ministers in the district. It's probably for the best that they took their negativity and went their own way. Lord bless 'em real good.

Agreed! The formation of the WPF was the best thing for both sides! Both should thrive in their new environment! The cat fighting is really not necessary. I'm sure there will be preachers that move from one group to the other. Both sides need to realize that this is a natural response.

[deadeye]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

There was no major shift in thinking, they just no longer had the influence, or the ability to bully in some cases, to force an entire organization to surrender to their dictates. It's the same "I'm taking my ball and going home" attitude most in this group have always had.

This has got to be one of the stupidest posts I have ever read.

[Steve Epley]

This is a spurious unfounded rumor with NO attempt that I know to verify it. Elder Booker has denied it.

[ChicagoPastor]

Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge

It seems to me.. that if you think these guys are such liars, you'd be happy they left the upc? Why does it bother you?

I don't like people that split churches and organizations or at least try to.

Lived through a church split.........the 'noise' that some of the WPF'ers made going out was the similar to what I heard when people tried to split our Church.

didn't get their way...
ungrateful....
doomsday prophecies....

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by deadeye

This has got to be one of the stupidest posts I have ever read.

Don't get out much do ya?