Is it wrong for men to wear shorts to their knees Women in the UPC wear skirts to their knees. How about a beard, is that wrong???????
They've already done away with the beard thing. Don't see a problem with the shorts and dresses. So, no. Most churches I am familiar with already dress this way. Where in the world do you live? LOL! You aren't supposed to answer that, of course. lol You sound like 20 years behind where we are all at.
Is it wrong for men to wear shorts to their knees Women in the UPC wear skirts to their knees. How about a beard, is that wrong???????
Again....
YOU are the one holding license with the UPCI. Not having settled these issues in your own heart, by understanding your OWN THEOLOGY and by not committing you to grasping the doctrines of YOUR church, are in fact, YOUR ISSUES.
I don’t know what bothers me more. Your not having these things settled in your own heart, or your asking Apostolics Friends Forum for your direction.
Either of these alone would be disturbing. The two together is so shocking as to make me actually wonder at your veracity.
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YOU are the one holding license with the UPCI. Not having settled these issues in your own heart, by understanding your OWN THEOLOGY and by not committing you to grasping the doctrines of YOUR church, are in fact, YOUR ISSUES.
I don’t know what bothers me more. Your not having these things settled in your own heart, or your asking Apostolics Friends Forum for your direction.
Either of these alone would be disturbing. The two together is so shocking as to make me actually wonder at your veracity.
well, I was (or at least thought I was) clear on these standards 10 years ago. As far as me bringing them up on this forum, it was this forum that made me think about what I believe.
well, I was (or at least thought I was) clear on these standards 10 years ago. As far as me bringing them up on this forum, it was this forum that made me think about what I believe.
Respectfully if a forum full of people who have as varied a set of beliefs as the local mall on any given Saturday has impacted your understanding of who God is, and how you relate to him, I would suggest you never really gave any consideration to that subject to begin with.
I suspect you thought you knew who you were, you came here and saw questions you really had not spent time understanding and settling in your own heart.
As one minister told me, until you have that "crisis of faith" you really have no idea what you believe.
It is only once you come out the other side that you really are settled in your doctrine.
I would for the second or third time, suggest that this place not be the place where you settle eternal matters.
(Dear AFF friends, the above post is in no way meant to impugn any of you. Rather it is to suggest that one should never weigh eternal matters by the musings of others whose spiritual commitment cannot be understood. I know some of you. Some of you know me, but as a body we are little more than strangers. This is a fun place. We have a good time here. But for the weighty matters of my soul, I have trusted men who have walked with me and who's lives I know and who's commitment to God I have witnessed that I turn to when in need of council.)
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
Respectfully if a forum full of people who have as varied a set of beliefs as the local mall on any given Saturday has impacted your understanding of who God is, and how you relate to him, I would suggest you never really gave any consideration to that subject to begin with.
I suspect you thought you knew who you were, you came here and saw questions you really had not spent time understanding and settling in your own heart.
As one minister told me, until you have that "crisis of faith" you really have no idea what you believe.
It is only once you come out the other side that you really are settled in your doctrine.
I would for the second or third time, suggest that this place not be the place where you settle eternal matters.
(Dear AFF friends, the above post is in no way meant to impugn any of you. Rather it is to suggest that one should never weigh eternal matters by the musings of others whose spiritual commitment cannot be understood. I know some of you. Some of you know me, but as a body we are little more than strangers. This is a fun place. We have a good time here. But for the weighty matters of my soul, I have trusted men who have walked with me and who's lives I know and who's commitment to God I have witnessed that I turn to when in need of council.)
I agree.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Respectfully if a forum full of people who have as varied a set of beliefs as the local mall on any given Saturday has impacted your understanding of who God is, and how you relate to him, I would suggest you never really gave any consideration to that subject to begin with.
I suspect you thought you knew who you were, you came here and saw questions you really had not spent time understanding and settling in your own heart.
As one minister told me, until you have that "crisis of faith" you really have no idea what you believe.
It is only once you come out the other side that you really are settled in your doctrine.
I would for the second or third time, suggest that this place not be the place where you settle eternal matters.
(Dear AFF friends, the above post is in no way meant to impugn any of you. Rather it is to suggest that one should never weigh eternal matters by the musings of others whose spiritual commitment cannot be understood. I know some of you. Some of you know me, but as a body we are little more than strangers. This is a fun place. We have a good time here. But for the weighty matters of my soul, I have trusted men who have walked with me and who's lives I know and who's commitment to God I have witnessed that I turn to when in need of council.)
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
well, I was (or at least thought I was) clear on these standards 10 years ago. As far as me bringing them up on this forum, it was this forum that made me think about what I believe.
We have to be grounded and rooted on the Bible, not on what a denomination teaches.
That is why we need to study the Bible and really understand what it really teaches.
Many years after I became a Christian I am still standing as one, even though in the Real world and the Virtual world (Forums, chat rooms, e-mail),
I have been attacked by Atheists, Agnostics, Morons, Jehovah's witless, 7th day adversaries and regular "Christians", Yet I have not fallen down.
I believe the Acts 2:38 message even more than when I first begun this walk and that is because I studied every day the Bible, early on I even had marathon 12 hours straight Bible study. (8:00 am to 8:00 pm) nonstop.
The point is that our faith needs to be based on what the Bible really says, not on what someone teaches it says.
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**Original Matthew 28:19 Restored**
Is it wrong for men to wear shorts to their knees Women in the UPC wear skirts to their knees. How about a beard, is that wrong???????
Yes. We are told to be and look different than the world. So think my friend . Do you look different? Does your church look different from the others? I am in Mississippi and a member of the Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship. If you trust your pastor then you should obey.
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