The "dress code" is essential...

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

I listen as some of the Ultra-Cons say they do thus and thus just to make sure, don't want to take any chances! They don't want to take a chance of not doing enough, of not being right.

If I was a woman and felt that way, then I think I would dress like the Muslim ladies, with head covered, white garment to the ground, arms fully covered... no body showing except the hands and the face .... just to make sure! You have to admit there is no way to be more "outwardly holy", (if that's outward holiness) than the Muslim women.

Much of what many Pentecostals believe is the results of what they have heard from childhood to adulthood. And someone said it right... we were condemned to hell if we questioned anything. We were being rebellious and would surely split hell wide open if we did not blindly follow what came across the pulpit. We were not allowed to work out anything!

Been Thinkin

Well, "Obey them" IS a catch-all loophole which allows unlimited adding and taking away from the Word.

[Amanah]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Well, "Obey them" IS a catch-all loophole which allows unlimited adding and taking away from the Word.

when i was UPC i was told "if your Pastor says to stand on your head and gargle peanut butter, you'd better do it"

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Amanah

when i was UPC i was told "if your Pastor says to stand on your head and gargle peanut butter, you'd better do it"

Funny! I am glad those days are gone. No one should use such crazy excuses for doing something ridiculous! One should never check in their brain just so they can go to church.


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[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Amanah

when i was UPC i was told "if your Pastor says to stand on your head and gargle peanut butter, you'd better do it"

An evangelist once told me in front of a pastor that I should obey the pastor,
right or wrong. I said, Brother, YOU are wrong. I still feel that way. Wrong is
wrong no matter whose mouth it comes out of. Truth is truth even if it comes
out of the mouth of a person, not of your persuasion.

My late pastor father would say,"Some will not accept truth, because they
don't like the source it comes from"!

Growing up, if something didn't sound right or different from what I had been
taught, I would look to my father. I had confidence in my earthly father as I
knew his prayer life and his study of the Word. I knew he had the Spirit in him.

Today I could go to many churches and not be affected by what I heard. I be-
lieve I could, as an adult, even hear some truth and be able to recognize it.
Doesn't mean I would embrace everything. Paul said when he was a child he
spoke as a child, he thought as a child, etc., BUT when he became a man
(when he grew up and matured, he put away childish things.

We must know the Word for ourselves and pray in the Holy Ghost. Then when
we hear something that isn't right, we can recognize it. We can also be able to
discern spirits.

Falla39

[johnny44]

Originally Posted by Amanah

when i was UPC i was told "if your Pastor says to stand on your head and gargle peanut butter, you'd better do it"

How do you gargle peanut butter?

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by johnny44

His mama spoke to him.

LOL!!!

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by Falla39

An evangelist once told me in front of a pastor that I should obey the pastor,
right or wrong. I said, Brother, YOU are wrong. I still feel that way. Wrong is
wrong no matter whose mouth it comes out of. Truth is truth even if it comes
out of the mouth of a person, not of your persuasion.
My late pastor father would say,"Some will not accept truth, because they
don't like the source it comes from"!

Growing up, if something didn't sound right or different from what I had been
taught, I would look to my father. I had confidence in my earthly father as I
knew his prayer life and his study of the Word. I knew he had the Spirit in him.

Today I could go to many churches and not be affected by what I heard. I be-
lieve I could, as an adult, even hear some truth and be able to recognize it.
Doesn't mean I would embrace everything. Paul said when he was a child he
spoke as a child, he thought as a child, etc., BUT when he became a man
(when he grew up and matured, he put away childish things.

We must know the Word for ourselves and pray in the Holy Ghost. Then when
we hear something that isn't right, we can recognize it. We can also be able to
discern spirits.
Falla39

Amen Sis Falla!

[Narrow Is The Way]

Originally Posted by Cindy

I am the same on the inside, no matter what I wear on the outside.

You tell who somebody is by the way they dress.
A queer lets us know who he is by the way he dresses.
A prostitute lets us know who she is by the way she dresses.

We have a problem when somebody dresses holy on the outside and is living a lie within.

We also have a problem when folks refuse to dress holy.

It takes both. You can't get away from it.

If you don't want to dress holy, you likely have an unholy heart.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Narrow Is The Way

You tell who somebody is by the way they dress.
A queer lets us know who he is by the way he dresses.
A prostitute lets us know who she is by the way she dresses.

We have a problem when somebody dresses holy on the outside and is living a lie within.

We also have a problem when folks refuse to dress holy.

It takes both. You can't get away from it.

If you don't want to dress holy, you likely have an unholy heart.

You moron. My supervisor at work is gay and I would defy you to tell he was by the way he dresses.

I would be willing to bet I can tell a lot about you by the way YOU dress...... A pharisee?

When you pray, do you spend half your time thanking God that your not as bad as all the people you just mentioned?

[faithit166]

amen