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Should a person remove his or her earrings to take a leadership position in church?

OR

should the person wear them, but not to church?

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It depends if they want to be saved or not.

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anyond with a real answer

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Depends if he's gay or strait.:heeheehee

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again, anyone with a real answer

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This would be a real answer! Not being judgemental, but bibical! Think bout it and look it up in the Word of God... Find your real answer in His precious Word. God bless :)

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That answer is not biblical.

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Wat answer? Wearing silver or gold.. Believe its Timothy 2:9... Cant remember if its first or second tim tho. :) Gotta love the Word of God. Its full of answers under any circumstance!!! Theres plenty of other scriptures pertaining to this topic, OT and NT.

God bless

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They disregard all those scripture they don't like.

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You and your friends disregrd context.

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If the church teaches against wearing them then they should just not wear them anymore

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Nah. I'll keep them. They can have their leadership positions...

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I'll never forget the night my Grandma received the Holy Ghost. When she got up off the floor both of her earrings were gone. She had the back to one but we could find nothing else. I looked all over the floor where she had been and couldnt find them. She never put earrings back in her ears after that night. Yes, i believe it's a sin for God's people to wear jewelry today. But, my words nor the words of others here are going to convince you of that anymore than you are going to convince us that it's ok. I think you should pray about it and get a "real answer" from Jesus. And then validate it by His Word. (-:

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I have insomnia. why are you up?

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I should also ask...is this about a "leadership position" or doing a work for God? If something in your life is hindering you from doing a work for God, then it deffinitely needs to go!

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I am up because I go to work at 6 AM...and you post got my attention and now I'm late for work! I live in WV too...i think we might be in different time zones?

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No. When we look at jewelry today, it is because of look, and nothing else. I would rather sit under an humble man of God who wears earrings than a totalitarian tyrant who wears thousand dollar suits and wants to show off at GC.

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yeah, central here. I have to be up for work at 6.

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My pastor wears neither.

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Leaving NOWWW!

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U.T., don't turn this into that.

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If you are in a position of leadership, that means young people are looking up to you as an example.

That means they better not perceive you to be a hypocrite.

If you are teaching sunday school, singing in the choir, leading song service, ushering, then be respectfull of the standards of your church.

When my Sister taught Sunday School, she was very carefull to comply so as to not cause a young person to stumble.

When she quit teaching sunday school, after awhile, we went to the movies.

That, of course, is just one opinion.

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...or not worry about sitting under leadership who preaches extra-Biblical, men's doctrines...

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I would think if the leadership position was offered while the person was wearing earrings, obviously they weren't that much of an issue to begin with. I would not remove them simply to accept a position.

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Depends on the church and what viewpoint they hold on the issue.

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Ah. No one has noticed. I don't wear them around church people, out of respect. Lately I have been feeling like I shouldn't walk on egg shells. I mean, come on, I have always gone out of my way to be respectful and to keep from offending the brethren. But that is a one way street. I am tired of making accommidations.

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taking jewelry off to to go church is a small accomodation, especially if there are any young men who are looking at you as an example.

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well i cant argue with you on that, but

When I was a part of and ultra con church, I lived the standards because of the teen agers I taught in Sunday School.

Which was a bit of a trial as they are smart as a whip and kept asking me, why we have standards and they didn't see it in the bible and blah blah

Which caused me to go to the pastor in pure exasperation and say: "I can't really defend the standards we are preaching, can you help me"

Funny thing was, it wasn't much longer after that that the church quit preaching standards, changed it's name and became a TD Jakesque church.

At which time I quit going to church all together for awhile.

You know, come to think of it, I may be the wrong person to ask.

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Personally, I think one should submit to the standards of leadership in their local church. Some churches may have a standard of conduct for leaders. It may not be salvational, just how the ministry of the church wishes to be preceived by the community at large. Other churches might be more "cutting edge" or "relevant" and not have an issue with it. I'd say abide by the churches standards of conduct.

As for general membership, I would make no issue about it with regards to women. I might jokingly chide men with earrings because of my upbringing. But I'd NEVER throw anyone out of church or condemn them over an earring.

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I know of one church that asks any in leadership to please not wear their jewelry on the platform. I don't understand that. If they are okay with them wearing their jewelry anywhere else? Seems very hypocritical to me.

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The only piece of "jewelry" I wear, and WILL ever wear, is my wedding ring. I almost never take it off. However if I was asked to perform some function at church AND was told to take it off as a requirement, I would not -nor would I perform the function I was asked or invited to do. What I would NOT do is somehow demand that I still be allowed to do the job AND wear my ring. I figure it is their court - their rules, as the saying goes, and I can choose to play or not play there.

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RANDY... thanks.

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I think it's for women only to not wear jewelry. Men apparently can wear all they want.

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Ya, us guys can get as decked out as we want. ;)
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Define "a work for God" and how earrings keeps someone from doing "a work for God"

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I posted under the assumption the original post was asking what to do if he/she wears them and wants to be in leadership