OK, discuss. (I've already "commented" enough on FB. )
The title of your link - "Stuff Apostolics Like"
My daughter changed membership from a church (very large) where she, emphatically, claimed that the women were hard on the standards. I told her, "No, they aren't. They just won't tell you that." She told me I was wrong. After she left, people in leadership talked with her on the phone telling her they follow the standards to keep their positions on the platform.
I used the link and went to the website and read it. I keep thinking that surely it has to be a typo on the scanned document. I cannot believe they actually used the word "legalism"!
As far as the letter itself goes I think it is probably the template that UPCI HQ / DB used in his Texas district then once he became GS urged other districts to send out.
__________________ "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"
I'm interested in this type of stuff, especially when it involves the Michigan District, where I grew up, was licensed, and pastored.
I was surprised by the resolution as it originally read, and Rebecca's explanation makes a bit more sense. However, she is correct - once it circulates, it's gospel.
And, it seems that this resolution could have stood a closer proofread....I'm sure there are critics who are claiming that they are making up the story about the word "not" missing just to deflect criticism.....
__________________ "Many people view their relationship with God like a "color by number" picture. It's easier to let someone else define the boundaries, tell them which blanks to fill in, and what color to use than it is for them to take a blank canvas and seek inspiration from the Source in order to paint their own masterpiece"
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