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| What I Used to BelieveWhen I was a 2x2 in Oregon, this is what I used to believe from what I learned in meetings:
- that the workers were apostles of God.
- that I was part of the church that Jesus started from the beginning (of what I didn't know)
- that God intended we meet in homes for Sunday AM meeting
- that people who met in church buildings were going to hell
- that if a preacher was not a worker then they were a false preacher and of the devil
- that I needed to profess (stand up in a tested meeting to indicate your belief) in the meetings in order to be saved
- that workers had to go out in pairs or they were not true preachers
- that you were more respectable if you were a worker than if you were married
- that you should revere workers
- that workers were the ones you were supposed to go to if you had a problem
- that workers knew everything about the Bible
- that the Bible was a closed book to people who didn't go to meetings
- that our unprofessing neighbors were going to hell
- that I needed to give my testimony each Sunday or else something bad would happen
- that I needed to have an interesting testimony to please my parents and sound like I meant it
- that people really didn't care about my soul as much as they cared about my Sunday testimony
- that worldly possessions were to be despised
- that it was evil to have a TV in your home
- that women needed to have long hair and wear them in a bun for meetings
- that professing people were better than unprofessing people
- that I was better than other people who didn't profess
- that people who left meetings and then came back were prodigals
- that you had more to brag about in meetings if you were second, third or fourth generation professing
- that I needed to use "we", "thee" and "thou" when I prayed in order to respect God in prayer
- that I should only use the KJV Bible
- that I was better than others because I went to meetings
- that I knew the scripture better than others because I listened to the workers in meetings
- that worldly people were to be despised
- that overseers were like Gods
- that professing sometimes wasn't good enough, I needed to be "possessing" (though I didn't know what that really meant)
- that God was using me more if I brought people to gospel meetings
- that it was evil for a church to have a name
- that our church had no name (even though we called ourselves "the truth")
- that the workers were apostles and the apostles were the first workers
- that Paul the apostle was an overseer
- that I needed to be baptized by a worker in order to take the bread and fruit of vine in Sunday AM meetings
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