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12-08-2013, 12:10 AM
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Recovering Pharisee
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Back with some new perspective
Greetings to AFF! It has been about 6 years since I last participated in the discussions on this forum (although I peek out here on occasion). Much has changed in my life since I was last here. God has graciously blessed my husband and I with two beautiful kids: Jaxon our 4 year old son and Acacia our 2 year old princess. We are no longer part of the UPC (or any other traditional holiness pentecostal group) and boy was that transition an eye opening experience. I have noticed some interesting discussions our here recently and just want to chime in, shake things up a little maybe. Let the fun begin! 
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12-08-2013, 02:48 AM
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Go Dodgers!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: Back with some new perspective
Wow...lol. Welcome back
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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12-08-2013, 03:04 PM
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Yeshua is God
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Los Angeles
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Re: Back with some new perspective
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Originally Posted by Roxanne Murphy
Greetings to AFF! It has been about 6 years since I last participated in the discussions on this forum (although I peek out here on occasion). Much has changed in my life since I was last here. God has graciously blessed my husband and I with two beautiful kids: Jaxon our 4 year old son and Acacia our 2 year old princess. We are no longer part of the UPC (or any other traditional holiness pentecostal group) and boy was that transition an eye opening experience. I have noticed some interesting discussions our here recently and just want to chime in, shake things up a little maybe. Let the fun begin! |
That is OK, you do not have to be a part of an organization to be a part of the kingdom of God.
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12-08-2013, 03:52 PM
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Go Dodgers!
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Re: Back with some new perspective
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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
That is OK, you do not have to be a part of an organization to be a part of the kingdom of God.
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Does God have an organization?
__________________
Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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12-08-2013, 04:50 PM
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On the road less traveled
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: On a mountain... somewhere
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Re: Back with some new perspective
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Originally Posted by Roxanne Murphy
Greetings to AFF! It has been about 6 years since I last participated in the discussions on this forum (although I peek out here on occasion). Much has changed in my life since I was last here. God has graciously blessed my husband and I with two beautiful kids: Jaxon our 4 year old son and Acacia our 2 year old princess. We are no longer part of the UPC (or any other traditional holiness pentecostal group) and boy was that transition an eye opening experience. I have noticed some interesting discussions our here recently and just want to chime in, shake things up a little maybe. Let the fun begin! |
Hey there, and welcome back!!!
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12-09-2013, 08:46 AM
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Registered Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Wisconsin
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Re: Back with some new perspective
Hey, Roxanne!
I remember you well!! Welcome back and congratulations on your new journey! I am very excited for you! Can you share what brought you to where you are now?? Can you share where you are now as well?
An Old Friend,
ILG
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When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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12-09-2013, 10:12 AM
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On the road less traveled
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Re: Back with some new perspective
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Originally Posted by ILG
Hey, Roxanne!
I remember you well!! Welcome back and congratulations on your new journey! I am very excited for you! Can you share what brought you to where you are now?? Can you share where you are now as well?
An Old Friend,
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Yes, please do... I second the motion!
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12-10-2013, 01:35 AM
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Registered Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: South Central Texas
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Re: Back with some new perspective
Indeed - Dear Roxanne was quite the fireball six years ago. Do tell 
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12-10-2013, 07:07 PM
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Recovering Pharisee
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Oregon
Posts: 136
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Re: Back with some new perspective
This journey of change began about 2 years ago. My dear husband had completed his MBA and had started a course for our church to help folks live more on purpose to thus better reach a lost and dying world with the gospel. He and our pastor felt that one of the key issues that God was dealing with our church was about transparency. At the same time, our church was growing and our pastor and his wife had started a midweek Bible study in their home that soon grew into a daughter work.
My pastor, his wife, my husband, myself, our youth pastor and his wife were all finding ourselves asking: how do we truly and effectively communicate the gospel to our area? How do we reach people? Evangelizing ourselves is not fulfilling the Great Commission!
Then, people from the daughter work who came to visit our main Sunday services began to ask our pastor: why do the ladies in your church only wear dressed? Why do they not wear jewelry or use make up? Why do they not cut their hair? So my pastor set out to prepare good, sound, scriptural reasons to explain why our ladies looked as they did. He realized that he would be presenting these teachings to honest, well educated people who were seeing the Word of God through eyes and hearts not previously influenced by the 'holiness' culture that our church had, compliments of the denomination to which we belonged. He soon realized that he could not honestly make the scriptures say that these things were sinful.
Now, at the same time, my dear husband was taking another look at these very same things and very exuberantly discussing them with me. I was not interested, in fact was afraid of what I was hearing, and actually one day told him, "I don't wish to discuss this please stop!" I was very distressed and found myself asking God to please restore my husband's sanity. But as I continued to pray about these things, God began to take me for a spiritual stroll through the gospels and pointed out how the Pharisees were so entrenched in their traditions that they missed what God was doing, in fact, fought against Him! This was a painful realization for me because I had been quite a zealous holiness Pharisee; this was all that I knew and I had become accustomed to judging everything by those man made 'holiness standards' that I had been taught from my childhood. (To be continued)
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12-10-2013, 08:25 PM
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Registered Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Wisconsin
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Re: Back with some new perspective
Yay, Roxanne!! Eagerly awaiting the next installment. 
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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