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11-09-2007, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by timlan2057
Remember in the late seventies when "granny" dresses with their mid-calf length came into style?
This was when mini-skirts went out.
The first thing as an enthusiastic young pentecostal convert that I questioned in the back of my mind about these "standards" was this:
I thought, well fine, now the girls can wear what's in style and still be "holy."
I was rather taken aback when the granny dresses were preached against for being "worldly fashion."
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As a young person, I always had a problem with the "unwritten" rules.
For instance, it was just fine to have the latest model of automobile, with all the bells and whistles, it was just fine to wear fancy, expensive suits with silk ties, it was just fine for the women to dress up like they were going to the Queen's ball, you could live in a fancy house, but yet you couldn't wear a wedding ring!
I've never quite understood why our Articles of Faith have absolutely NO wording about facial hair, but if a man grew a mustache, he was backslidden. Unless, of course, it was Christmas/Easter play time, and the beard and mustache were fake. If it's a sin, isn't it a sin to fake it too?
I couldn't understand why we couldn't have TV or go to the "picture show", but it was ok to bring a 16mm projector into the church and show the "End Time" movies.
Couldn't understand why it was wrong to play sports in school, but it was fine to get the whole church group together to fight it out on the football field on a Sunday afternoon. Of course, some of our best services on a Sunday night were caused by the young men repenting for beating the tar out of each other and cussing on the field that afternoon!
In case any hasn't noticed, one of my hobby horses is the propogation of incosistencies in the way we were raised, and I apologize if I'm being a "Bore", lol. (For those of you who read the UPCI Needs a Healer thread, you'll know what I reference)
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11-09-2007, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
As a young person, I always had a problem with the "unwritten" rules.
For instance, it was just fine to have the latest model of automobile, with all the bells and whistles, it was just fine to wear fancy, expensive suits with silk ties, it was just fine for the women to dress up like they were going to the Queen's ball, you could live in a fancy house, but yet you couldn't wear a wedding ring!
I've never quite understood why our Articles of Faith have absolutely NO wording about facial hair, but if a man grew a mustache, he was backslidden. Unless, of course, it was Christmas/Easter play time, and the beard and mustache were fake. If it's a sin, isn't it a sin to fake it too?
I couldn't understand why we couldn't have TV or go to the "picture show", but it was ok to bring a 16mm projector into the church and show the "End Time" movies.
Couldn't understand why it was wrong to play sports in school, but it was fine to get the whole church group together to fight it out on the football field on a Sunday afternoon. Of course, some of our best services on a Sunday night were caused by the young men repenting for beating the tar out of each other and cussing on the field that afternoon!
In case any hasn't noticed, one of my hobby horses is the propogation of incosistencies in the way we were raised, and I apologize if I'm being a "Bore", lol. (For those of you who read the UPCI Needs a Healer thread, you'll know what I reference)
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11-09-2007, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Pastor G
Now that was a mouthful... 
The only thing I will say about the Bible School thing that was begun a few posts back, is that a lot of us have been in and through Bible School and surely we understand that there just might be another side to this story...
I am not dis-agreeing just remembering...
When I was in BS years ago they were after us about our hair too so about 30 of us went and got crew cuts and we got in trouble for that, cause they thought we were doing it to make a statement... and we were... |
PG, did you go to ACE competitions with us? I remember going there and having my hair cut once I got there, because it was too long. It wasn't on the ears, or collar, but it was a bit too long, I guess.......and they made me sit in the chair while a totally untrained wannabe barber butchered me!
I was soooooooooo mad!
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11-09-2007, 02:54 PM
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Heaven forbid that people try to be individuals and have personalities...
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11-09-2007, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
As a young person, I always had a problem with the "unwritten" rules.
For instance, it was just fine to have the latest model of automobile, with all the bells and whistles, it was just fine to wear fancy, expensive suits with silk ties, it was just fine for the women to dress up like they were going to the Queen's ball, you could live in a fancy house, but yet you couldn't wear a wedding ring!
I've never quite understood why our Articles of Faith have absolutely NO wording about facial hair, but if a man grew a mustache, he was backslidden. Unless, of course, it was Christmas/Easter play time, and the beard and mustache were fake. If it's a sin, isn't it a sin to fake it too?
I couldn't understand why we couldn't have TV or go to the "picture show", but it was ok to bring a 16mm projector into the church and show the "End Time" movies.
Couldn't understand why it was wrong to play sports in school, but it was fine to get the whole church group together to fight it out on the football field on a Sunday afternoon. Of course, some of our best services on a Sunday night were caused by the young men repenting for beating the tar out of each other and cussing on the field that afternoon!
In case any hasn't noticed, one of my hobby horses is the propogation of incosistencies in the way we were raised, and I apologize if I'm being a "Bore", lol. (For those of you who read the UPCI Needs a Healer thread, you'll know what I reference)
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Amen... And Mike you may know of what I speak... I remember being on a Christian School Baseball team and taking that team to a neighboring church and we couldn't play, us against them, but we had to choose up teams with equal number of players on each team from each school... because that church didn't believe in competitive sports... However, that church was well known for their Bible Quiz teams that won all of the time...
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11-09-2007, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
PG, did you go to ACE competitions with us? I remember going there and having my hair cut once I got there, because it was too long. It wasn't on the ears, or collar, but it was a bit too long, I guess.......and they made me sit in the chair while a totally untrained wannabe barber butchered me!
I was soooooooooo mad!
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oh yes... And those weren't Pentecostals either...
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11-09-2007, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Sheltiedad
Heaven forbid that people try to be individuals and have personalities...
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11-09-2007, 02:57 PM
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Rebel with a cause.
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Originally Posted by Pastor G
Amen... And Mike you may know of what I speak... I remember being on a Christian School Baseball team and taking that team to a neighboring church and we couldn't play, us against them, but we had to choose up teams with equal number of players on each team from each school... because that church didn't believe in competitive sports... However, that church was well known for their Bible Quiz teams that won all of the time...
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Seems like I remember that! I think the real reason was that we were just too good for them, lol. I think they leveled the field that way.
Which was fine, because it was a good practice.
But, a GREAT example of an unwritten rule!
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11-09-2007, 02:59 PM
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Beautiful are the feet......
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
PG, did you go to ACE competitions with us? I remember going there and having my hair cut once I got there, because it was too long. It wasn't on the ears, or collar, but it was a bit too long, I guess.......and they made me sit in the chair while a totally untrained wannabe barber butchered me!
I was soooooooooo mad!
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I remember a Youth Camp in Illinois where all the boys were lined up and their hair was inspected. If the hair touched the ear or collar, you had two choices:
1. Let an untrained worker cut your hair.
2. Go home!
Me and my cousin didn't pass inspection!  Our hair got butchered!! We were both real mad cause we couldn't get any of the pretty girls attention that week! They just laughed at us!
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11-09-2007, 02:59 PM
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Da Evangelist
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We must be doomed. We have a 2 Bible Quiz teams and a ball team.
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