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While someone may be a "babe in Christ" they are still an adult, capable of rationalization. We view holiness traditions as core doctrine in this movement, and I categorically reject the notion that we view them as somehow secondary in importance to repentance, baptism and the infilling of the Holy Ghost. For goodness sake, we have reams of documents stating such.

Let's be honest here, we know full well what we will expect of any convert. We know what we want them to look like, what we want them to get rid of and so on. We know because we fully expect conformity to our traditional views concerning holiness.

So, why not be up front about it?