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Originally Posted by SavedLou
Thanks for your kindness and sincerity. I think they are banners usually only to those that are familiar with Pentecost though. Simply seeing someone dressing the standards rarely impresses or convicts people as we would like to think. It is the fruit of the Spirit that does this. Now I certainly believe in modesty, moderation and morality. I simply feel that so many man made standards are not truly Biblically based. They were founded with wonderful intentions, but most are usually based on one scripture. I do still hold to some standards, but I am growing weary of the inconsistencies. Ex. No jewelry but you can wear rhinestone embellished broaches, hair accessories, feathers in the hair, etc. We embrace "it's a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven" and reject in the very same book "it's a shame for a woman to speak in church". We say man is over woman spiritually but ordain women to be pastors. You go to UPC camps and see girls in skirts/dresses that are skin tight but who would never wear pants (gasp). I believe in principles, such as women should look like women and men like men, but things like ONE scripture on men's garments in the OT leaves room for debate. I just want people to respect that there are God-fearing, sincere Pentecostals that may have a different opinion than others and they shouldn't be made to feel they are eternally lost and backslidden, you know?
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Oh totally agree which is why I said to you what I did. I've seen God show the truths of the standard teaching to those who don't agree and they be fine with it. I believe God can give that understanding to everyone who seeks.
Just might want to look into what the scriptures were addressing when it talkes about women not speaking in church. Women spoke many times in the scriptures of prophetess and workers in the NT church. Paul was addressing a specific issue with those were not called to the ministry but felt they were called to disrupt and usurp authority..
I agree with the excess of wearing such, yet just because some seem to misalign themselves with decorating their clothes, does not make the other right that the wearing of jewelry is not dangerous to the heart. Both are and I agree both should be addressed and I have heard where they have been, but you are not going to hear that at GC. hehe (holiness is left mostly to pastor of individual churches and rightly so. Why do we need to be telling saints at another church under another pastor how wrong they are. We should talk to the shepherd if we have questions rather than talking about his sheep.)