The Latest from the "Holiness Police"
 

This post was copied from FB with permission from the author:


"It seems the latest fad among the “holiness police” is to send FB friend requests for the sole purpose of scouring photos so they can then hold cabals to assassinate both character and ministries-(aka “lamenting lack of standards”)

How truly frightening it must be to live in a siege “hold the fort” mentality, sitting around wondering who will be the next to be picked off.

How sad to reduce the concept to Holiness before God to compliance with a rulebook based on 50 year old North American “distinctives”.

Lord forgive them and grant them peace and a true understanding of Your love and holiness, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen"

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May I introduce these others to FB privacy controls?

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Man, I keep hoping one of the holiness officers would befriend me! I have a WHOLE BUNCH of Jamaican pictures I'd love to show them and have plastered on the next issue of whatever conservative rag that wishes to publish them. :)

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I do limit who can see some of my photo albums, mainly because I don't like the idea of strangers viewing pictures of my kids.

However, that isn't the point. What kind of person takes the time to go through facebook and myspace albums so they can report back to pastors or peers any misdeeds or controversy?

That in and of itself is quite the attitude problem. :coffee2

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And if I had enough time in my life to straighten them all out, I certainly would. So, for individuals I don't know too well, don't trust too well, they are certainly restricted in what they can see.

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When people are that uptight, ya just gotta have fun with them!

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I would pick a different word than uptight, lol. However, as far as the ya just gotta have fun with them, that's my job.

:thumbsup

I clearly differentiate between men of conviction and holiness police though.

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You big show off, you just want them to all see your huge biceps and 6 pack. :ursofunny

I agree with Miss Brat. I restrict my photo albums on Facebook to friends only because I don't really see the need for people that I don't know to peruse through my pics.

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I was going to say anal, but "uptight" just sounded better. :)

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Actually in case this it is people you DO know, honored their friend request, and then they thumb through albums looking for things were they can run tell their con friends how backsliden you are.

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Yeah that would be pretty pathetic and ridiculous. In that case, I hope those people are "former" friends after acting that childish.

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Why would you post anything inappropiate on fb or any place else. God himself can look at my fb. Check that , come to think of it he does lol, Ps Dont put your address on there or anything personal like a pic of your house or any kind of personal info. Dont brag about your job or your place of employment, trade skills ie. wage brackets in specific ways, No ones business. its just common sense!

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So far they are mostly targeting preachers.

With all their TALK about abominations- Deut. 22:5, they forget this one-Prob 6:16-19

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This is the type of picture the would find if they "tricked" me. :)

(WARNING: If you are offended by images of man showing skin above the elbow or a woman's midriff DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK! You have been warned!!!) It is us at Dunns River Falls in Jamaica.
http://randyandgail.com/DSC02892.JPG

Can you see this pic on the cover of the latest issue of the Apostolic Contender?

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First of all, there is an obvious disagreement on what is appropriate. Secondly, you are obviously missing the point, no flaunting involved. Friend request followed by searching for something wrong. Hence Holiness Police.

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sick minds...lol...

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Wow, Ron. I don't know what to say about that... boldness or sloppiness?

You just made public a photo of your wife in clothing closely related to a bra.

Okay... still trying to reconcile that. Love you anyways.

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It's actually "Randy" and it is not immodest (in our opinion) and presented ONLY as a link (meaning it takes the effort to actually click on it).
(And in Jamaica, we were far more modest than many others!)

But..... it is in the spirit of providing fodder for those looking for ammo to bring to their superiors in a "na na na na naa naa!" sort of way.

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oh good, I need to pull out my Pismo Beach pics and post then. Give them LOTS to talk about.

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This actually happened to me. I got a nasty message in my inbox about how I was "looked up" to and I had totally let them and God down, not to mention my family. Really upset me...for a few minutes :D

People...you just can't predict them!!

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People can be sooooooooooooo cruel...

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That is really sad.

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instead of holiness police how about aquaintances that are nosy troublemakers trying to draw attention away from what they just got caught doing ? at which point they would cease to be even an aquaintance.

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Oh, I don't know... I have found it pretty easy to predict people. First, look at who they admire, then look at who they consider their mentor; then look at where they get their spiritual inspiration.... then you can pretty well predict how they will respond.

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What is an FB?

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Facebook

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Truly sad I have had three pastors PM me that this has happened to them as well, from people they thought were friends.

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It is obvious inappropriateness is extremely subjective. To have the God Squad looking trouble is more disturbing than the "inappropriateness".

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Randy,

All us AFA ultrcons know that you are backslidden and reprobate and on the slippery slope to a devils hell, and, and, and.....

Why, Jamaica, and all them devilish places that you go to.....:thumbsup

By the way, what is facebook? I mean, I have seen some faces that look like a book but....

LOL

All in good humor folks,

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Well, on the thread where I posted several of our vacation pics I did mention that I was very careful in what I selected and heavily edited (cropped) a few others.
The link I gave in THIS thread had ample warning! :)

Makes me wish I could publish an application on this board where I posted a link that said "Warning! Do not click here! Porn! Porn! Porn!", and then post the names of the people, in real time, as they clicked on it for all to see with big letters that said GOTCHYA!. LOL

By the way, the link I posted was NOT porn, but a reference to the subject of the thread. An example of pics that an UC would see who tried to befriend me on Facebook (for the purpose of getting dirt).

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:ursofunny


So true, so true,

We just had good service tonight,

Lord Bless

TJJJ

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ahh, its a forum for those who are mostly non upc. kinda like aff ! beware prospective employers are known "GAWKERS" as some like to say !

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Actually, the UPC is all over Facebook, so that point is mute. As for AFF, I like it here!!! And you're right, there are a lot of non-UPC people on here, like Bro. Epley! Whom I appreciate very much despite our differences! :thumbsup

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But there is another side....

We had a young guy who posted pics of his drunken b-day party. Kid was our drummer and everyone thought was "living holy." But pics of holding bottles of whiskey and being hung on by girls about half dressed, he was shirltess...needless to say with the judgmental spirit in churches it almost destroyed the kid, he was talked about for weeks, I hated what happened. I would have contained it and handled it private, but he posted the pics and everyone found out. He is going to another apostolic church now and doing better.

We have another teenage girl who posted some sexual type pics and was talking about boys had comments like, "u ho" and "OMG he's so hot", "I would do him" Her mother had no idea. She was a perfect angel in her eyes.

I have a facebook/myspace pg. and there is nothing there to hide. I really don't care who views.

That being said....for an org. to dig into FB and investigate their preachers and prospects....is sick....I would walk away and tell them all where they could stick it.

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Employers use it often for screening candidates! It's the new HR craze! If it's not appropriate for you soon-to-be boss to see it, you may not want to post your exhibitionism to the world. And that's just simple common sense... wisdom.

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just a joke, ga not a point,sometimes, actually almost all the time my humour is kinda twisted, in a good way i hope, peace

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The same guys who take a promienet pastor's wife and use her photos to bash him for his liberalism. A low blow!

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I think they want to discredit ministers because once discredited that leaves more people turning to them... that's more money in their pockets.

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I am a pretty transparent person, but I did have a few second thoughts in the beginning about being facebook friends with people from AFF.

Though I am open on this site about what I do (and don't) believe, I also do my best to follow both the rules of the forum, and my own conscience (when it comes to not knowingly offending others ).

However, my facebook friends are a hodgepodge of friends and family from all different religions / lifestyles. And I made a decision in the beginning that I wasn't going to censor myself there.

Of course, I don't exactly think that anything I said or did on facebook or anywhere else would surprise anyone :D

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love that star avatar. im jealous!