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Originally Posted by Praxeas
I hate the word standards. It comes with such baggage. In fact I remember a well known preacher saying at GC "our standards of holiness"...OUR Standards?
I agree however HOLINESS is undertaught. Standards is over preached.
Inward Holiness is undertaught and underpreached.
True Holiness is more about Character than it is about clothing albeit how we dress or do anything at all should be a reflection of the true inner man
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One of the most common misnomers in Pentecost today is people that liken standards and holiness. They are not the same.
Holiness is the nature of God. "Be ye holy for I am Holy." You cannot get holy by putting clothes on though you can become unholy by taking them off. If one has a problem with seperation from the world then they have a problem with God. God chose the principle of seperation. He said that His people would be seperate "from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." Standards protects the holiness of God. Without them, you lose His nature. Therefore, the word "standard" does not scare me.
What scares me is people that harp on standards, yet never teach them. They don't know how to teach them. Standards must be taught. Holiness must be taught. Evangelism must be taught!