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Originally Posted by harleypreacher
Please help me I'm third generation Pentecostal, UPC pastor of a mid-size church, and have been studying the Bible and I can't find HOLINESS STANDARDS in the Bible internal or external. Internal Holiness would be the Holy Ghost and the evidence of that is not speaking in tongues but the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5. I do believe speaking in tongues as evidence of the Holy Ghost, but after that there should be some fruit after you tongue talk. Too many Pentecostals speaking in tongues without love and joy and they get in the mode of protecting holiness standards without LOVE.
How can the way you dress protect Love, Joy, Peace, etc?
Where did Jesus teach his disciples standards?
There are a lot of UPC preachers starting to ask questions and not getting good Biblical answers on the holiness standard issue.
Can someone please list holiness standards from the Bible, the Bible says to wear this or do this to be holy. |
Wow. Great post.
Yep. It will be men like you who change the UPC. The UPC will change but only after men like you are sick and tired of trying to win the lost of your city while having to balance these "standards" or trick folks into coming to church.
My pastor basically lost his license because he wouldn't "enforce" the UPC standards of no cut hair and TV and made the mistake of telling a girl in the church that she wouldn't go to hell for cutting her hair.