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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
This analogy makes no sense. Money is power in a very real sense, and it accumulates. Urging people to be less like the world increases one's power....... how, exactly?
I don't see how standards of dress and standards of conduct can be separated. And when a shepherd's leadership looks from a distance like a cynical power trip, you are both not close enough to observe and not charitable in assumptions.
I want to be led on a path to get as close to God as I can, not to get as close to the devil as I can and "still make it."
Problems with authority are difficult to veneer over, and are older than the hills. However, God expects us to both respect authority and wield it, as appropriate.
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If you can't see the similarity, then there isn't much I can say. What does a strong UC pastor have to preach about if you take the subject of holiness standards away? What will a UC pastor do if he has nothing to threaten his flock with? What will a UC pastor do if he can no longer relate stories to the congregation of someone keeling over dead for questioning the "man of god"? "Standards" are the very basis of power to MANY UC preachers, just as the power to tax and spend is to a crooked politician.
Interesting that the latter part of your post talked about problems with authority. Nuff said.
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