[Carpenter]

When you talk about standards you have to ask yourself about the purpose of standards, many are apparent and yet some are less apparent. Here are my observations for anyone who cares...

1. Standards as defined by the Apostolic church were developed as a way to maintain the religious culture. You can control anything by putting eternal consequenses to it. People are afraid of hell and even moreso losing their sense of community.

2. Standards as defined by the church bibically shouldn't apply to kids, yet we drill standards into them as a way of life. What happens is that they become part of their nature, standards defining WHO they are. They fear losing their identity if they were to lose their standards.

3. Many have been fooled into thinking that this is a choice. This is a lie from the pit of hell. The church has set up an untenable circumstance of choosing standards or hell...at least to me it seems like an easy choice. Unfortunatley it is linear too, embracing standards = Pleasing unto the Lord. Unfortunately I believe just the opposite, someone believing they are pleasing God through standards causes him to weep because of the situation at the cross being compromised.