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− | :Those interested in becoming members fill out a form and take membership classes (classes led by pastor and overseers & offered as needed) When completed, a prospective member adopts the local | + | :Those interested in becoming members fill out a form and take membership classes (classes led by pastor and overseers & offered as needed) When completed, a prospective member adopts the local chapter's covenant and his/her name is added to the active roll. |
:The active membership roll is kept on file in the church office and updated regularly. When members move away, their names are removed from the roll. | :The active membership roll is kept on file in the church office and updated regularly. When members move away, their names are removed from the roll. | ||
:This new covenant signing is a very recent trend, started sometime in 2015. In the past, such a covenant was implied. Now it is bureaucracy. | :This new covenant signing is a very recent trend, started sometime in 2015. In the past, such a covenant was implied. Now it is bureaucracy. |
Revision as of 16:53, 4 September 2016
Contents
- 1 Codewords: abuse of language
- 2 Meetings: abuse of time
- 3 Offering: abuse of finances
- 4 Testimony Sharing: abuse of conscience
- 5 Training: abuse of loyalty
- 6 Shepherding: abuse of mentoring
- 7 Fishing: abuse of campus privileges
- 8 Covenant: abuse of membership
- 9 Arranged Marriage: abuse of marriage
- 10 Pioneering: abuse of family
Codewords: abuse of language
- http://ubfriends.net/archive2015/2010/07/01/sprechen-sie-ubf/index.html
- http://www.restunleashed.org/category/ubfism-glossary/
Meetings: abuse of time
Offering: abuse of finances
- http://www.ecfa.org/MemberProfile.aspx?ID=20401
- http://www.priestlynation.com/1976-ubf-reform-letter-offering-money-abuses/
Testimony Sharing: abuse of conscience
Training: abuse of loyalty
- http://www.restunleashed.org/category/ubfism-discipleship-model/
- http://www.restunleashed.org/stage-1/
- http://www.restunleashed.org/stage-2/
- http://www.restunleashed.org/stage-3/
Shepherding: abuse of mentoring
- http://ubfriends.net/archive2015/2014/01/15/the-shepherding-movement-and-ubf-part-1/index.html
- http://ubfriends.net/archive2015/2014/01/21/the-shepherding-movement-and-ubf-part-2/index.html
- http://ubfriends.net/archive2015/2013/05/24/why-the-shepherding-movement-failed/index.html
Fishing: abuse of campus privileges
Covenant: abuse of membership
- Those interested in becoming members fill out a form and take membership classes (classes led by pastor and overseers & offered as needed) When completed, a prospective member adopts the local chapter's covenant and his/her name is added to the active roll.
- The active membership roll is kept on file in the church office and updated regularly. When members move away, their names are removed from the roll.
- This new covenant signing is a very recent trend, started sometime in 2015. In the past, such a covenant was implied. Now it is bureaucracy.
- http://www.chicagoubf.org/membership/
- http://www.restunleashed.org/category/ubfism-lee-horror-stories/
Arranged Marriage: abuse of marriage
- "God also blessed young missionaries who came to NJ through marriage by faith to feed God's flock of sheep at Rutgers."
- http://newjerseyubf.org/nj_ubf
- http://www.ubf.org/world-mission-news/africa/beautiful-wedding-between-juma-and-janet-kenya
- http://ubfriends.net/bible-study-or-arranged-marriage/
- https://exubfjc.wordpress.com/2006/03/07/the-marriage-by-faith-program-at-work/
- https://exubfjc.wordpress.com/?s=marriage+by+faith