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==Covenant: abuse of membership==
 
==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
 
: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'
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: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.
When members move away, their names are removed from the roll
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: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.chicagoubf.org/membership/
 
:http://www.restunleashed.org/category/ubfism-lee-horror-stories/
 
:http://www.restunleashed.org/category/ubfism-lee-horror-stories/

Revision as of 16:53, 4 September 2016

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

http://ubf.org/about/summary-work

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

http://ubfriends.net/the-dangers-of-testimony-sharing/

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

http://www.priestlynation.com/hardcore-11-a-critical-review/

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

Pioneering: abuse of family

http://ubfriends.net/archive2015/2015/09/11/can-ubf-divide-a-marriage/index.html