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Originally Posted by ChicagoPastor
Thank you for bolding the part where you said it has been YOUR experience. While I do enjoy preaching and ministering in the AA, and the friendships I have ,anyone that has been around the AA for a while knows that the veil HAS been a divise issue.
The AA wouldn't fellowship with us in Chicago, because our women didn't wear veils. When we DID fellowship the Apostolic women ALWAYS made comments about the 'non' veil wearing UPC women. I've gone to dinner where everyone pulls out there veil and if someone forgot theirs, they'd use a napkin or share one with another sister.
There are a FEW Churches that aren't big on the veil anymore, but for the most part this is still very important. It IS a standard, found in their standards of holiness....not something optional.
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For members I suppose that this is so, but for myself, I never saw it so-called "enforced"., nor read it in the 'Constitution, nor heard it preached about - strongly suggested? YES., but nothing comes of forcing anyone to do ANYthing it will certainly not foster UNITY in and of itself.
Even now that I don't attend AAchurches anymore, it is still part of MY personal consecration for GOD, as well as obedience to Him, to cover my head for prayer and reading THE WORD. I find it reprehensible for anyone to use this issue as something to cause division,
gossip or anything not conducive to projecting a christian spirit, or of loving GOD - come on! He notices details like that., LOVE is the only standard that truly matters at the end of the day.
Humans can be
so ridiculous sometimes.