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Originally Posted by clgustaveson
I find myself being disturbed by some ministers and their tactics in lessons.
This is no way an attack on any minister and if you know who preaches this I am not putting this man of God down.
But I was at the Indiana District UPC youth convention and the speaker preached "I Believe in Rings"...
He opened by discussing the things that we do in the church that have no biblical base such as running laps around the church, then he moved into the taboo of standards and how some are not in the Bible.
He took his text from the description of the tabernacle and talked about how rings were placed on all the items so that they could be moved in a time of transition without being tarnished.
He later drew a parallel to these rings and to the standards. He said we are in the greatest time of transition the church has ever faced and continued to rant about this.
Now, here is what bothers me and I think may be harmful:
1) Why is the church in a greater time of transition?
2) How safe is it when a preacher declares he has found some great hidden meaning in a scripture and it just blows the minds of the congregation?
I know it sounds like a great sermon but I can hardly see a shadow in rings and standards and now how many youth that were questioning their grounding in the church are going to be sustained by this faulty view point?
I just get a little upset when a preacher preaches something that sounds so mind blowing and intense but it is merely some interpretation to explain something that is not in the Bible....
dangerous!
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One, we don't have the full message to accurately gauge a response &
two, I can see you are not in favour of standards perhaps?