Thieving Louisiana Oneness Folks!

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On Tue, 19 May 1998 14:38:51 -0500 Matthew Shaw <MSHAW@teleplex.bsu.edu>
writes:
>
>I just don't see how someone can *steal* a church.  Would a Oneness
>minister simply arrive on the AG scene, stake out the territory, seize 
>a
>local church property and turn the congregation out?  It's not likely 
>or
>logical.  It would seem to me that there must have been a faction of
>existing Oneness adherents in a church in order for any Oneness 
>minister
>to assume leadership.


Well,  I don't know a whole lot about this subject but I know that in the
U.P.C. manual there are 2 types of churches; affiliated and
nonaffiliated.  If a minister tried to take a congregation and church and
move it to another organization it would be harder to do it legally with
an affiliated church because it is more "connected" to the organization. 


It could be possible that the churches that left the AOG were primarily
oneness and they simply voted to leave and were "unaffiliated" and so
legally the AOG couldn't do anything because the church belonged to the
people who attended it. The pastor may have been there a long time
already.  This is just a theory.

Sis. Yohnk 





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