[Rico]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Brother Rico, do you think there's any problem with a man wearing long sleeves and long pants, and a woman wearing a dress? Is there a problem with young people dressing conservatively both young sisters and young men?
Should they be warned not to do it? How about if these same people told you that Jesus told them to dress that way would you say to them that they were deluded?

I was in a revival where a woman took off her jewelry and wiped off her make-up and threw her jewelry on the platform while the entire church was shouting and running the pews in the Holy Ghost. Later she told us that Jesus told her to remove the jewelry and the make-up and never use those things again, and that she should never cut her hair again. She had no prior knowledge of the Apostolic Pentecostal Holiness movement, but she did what she did. Should someone have taken her into the church office and straighten her out?







It's the truth Bro, I have never seen more people who have a problem with these issue than the libs. It makes them hotter than hornets.

I have sat and watch them make some flip out comments over a pulpit on the subject of holiness standards, and say things about sister's wearing no make up and no slacks that were digs that were flipped. I had one of my old biker buddies with me at a restaurant and a Charismatic Liberal preacher grabbed my shirt sleeve and yanked it up and said "why don't you let your tattoos show, that's bondage if you can't wear short sleeves and show your past." I thought my old buddy was going to lose it (he wasn't in the church) and said to me "where did that come from!" I had to take a little bit of time to explain to him that religion causes brain damage in some people. So, I have seen it and heard it and read their material against Holiness standards. So Brother Rico they are always harping on the clothes.

In Jesus name

Brother Benincasa

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Brother, of course I don't have a problem with people wanting to dress in long sleeves and all the other dress code things. The issue is when pastors get it into their heads that it's their job to tell people how to dress and then take scripture completely out of context to go about doing it. I told someone else today that I feel it's an abuse of power. I have never, and never will be, against someone having personal convictions given to them by God. I have some myself. But I don't go around trying to tell people they have to live by my convictions and I certainly don't go around twisting the Word of God to justify demanding that people live by those convictions. If God tells a woman to take off her make up and only wear dresses then, by all means, I am all for her obeying the voice of the Lord. Just because He wants that from one person does not mean He wants it from everybody.

How would you feel if someone got into a pulpit and started telling you you were going to Hell for being on the internet? How about if they used the "I will set no evil thing before my eyes" scripture? Wouldn't you feel like they were twisting the scripture and abusing their power as a preacher? Or would you just obey and do what he said just because he said it and after all, he is the preacher?