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A LETTER
FROM OUR GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
To My Fellow Ministers:
May God’s rich blessings be upon you in this New Year of
2005. We are believing with you that this year will be a
great year of progress and revival in your field of labor.
While we are reaching out to see new souls saved, we must
also work at protecting and keeping our own selves from evil
and harmful things. Immediately after the Holy Ghost
outpouring, Peter testified and exhorted those in the crowd
to “Save yourselves from this untoward generation” (Acts
2:40). There are times we must protect ourselves and our
families from the sins of the generation in which we live.
We live in a society where perversion is on every hand.
Every sort of media from billboards, magazines, television,
internet and even our daily newspapers bring temptation upon
our society. The July/August issue of Rev. Magazine
published that there are now 260 million pornographic sites
on the worldwide web, up 1,800% in just five years. What got
my attention is when I read the September/October 2004 issue
of the Discipleship Journal, which noted that in the month
of March 2004, 40% of home users, and 44% of workers with an
internet connection visited X-rated sites during that month.
Ministers, whether we like it or not, the Scripture is clear
that we are all simply flesh and blood and are not
automatically immune to temptations of the world we live in
just because we have received the Holy Ghost. Paul said it
well in I Corinthians10:13: “There hath no temptation taken
you but such as is common to man …” Thankfully he didn’t
stop there. He concluded by saying: “… but God is faithful,
who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
able; but will with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
I am strongly encouraging every minister of our fellowship
who has access to internet, whether it’s coming into your
office, your home, or both, to protect yourself and your
family by having an internet filter. To help protect our
ministers, their families, and all the families of our
churches, the United Pentecostal Church has partnered with
an internet filtering company powered by BSafe. You can sign
up for this service by clicking the
"Sign Up" button on this
website. One very significant feature is the provision of an
accountability option where periodically every blocked web page
attempt is sent in a report to someone to whom you are
accountable.
I urge you not only to place the filter on your own
computer, but to encourage your church families to do the same.
Let’s protect ourselves and our families.
Sincerely,
Kenneth F. Haney
General Superintendent |
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