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Originally Posted by scotty
No God didn't ,
It was monkey see , monkey doo
you just fell in place with everyone else because you are psychologically unstable and you want everyone to love you and accept you so you followed along. No God or Spirit involved there..
TIC
Hope you don't mind being told that...
If you do , you wont last in here.
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you're telling her she followed standards without the Spirit leading her. how could you possibly know that?! good grief! i guess i did the same thing then...with about a million others! sorry but i am one of the most headstrong, stubborn, skeptical-by-nature people you'll meet and NOONE said one word to me about standards. it was almost a full year before i adopted any standards. i went to church with my full makeup and earrings, etc. and people were loving and friendly to me. the ONLY reason i did what i did was through MUCH prayer and bible reading. i was actually...gasp... convicted by the Spirit. i am noone's copycat.
no, i don't believe standards are essential for salvation and i don't follow a lot of them strictly by ANY means. i do think they can be a good thing if they're not used to judge someone else by. my goal every day is not to look like a pentecostal cookie cutter, it's to be modest/moderate in all things and Christ-like. if someone NEVER adopted any standards that's not my right to judge. i know people that have attended our church for years and years but have never followed one standard. but never once has our pastor ever had a little "talk" with them about it. he loves them and accepts them and treats them no differently. that's why i wish my friend lived close to me so she could come with me and if she chose not to follow standards, she wouldn't feel pressured. i hate to see her find a Spirit-filled, truth teaching church and possibly (don't know for a fact) be made to feel like she isn't "good enough". all i care about right now is that she is very hungry for more of God. she is a Christian lady but i want to see her filled with his Spirit, etc.