How Many "3 Steppers" Do We Have On Aff???

[Sam]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Wearing a red shirt is wrong, and GT Haywood is called upon to support this?
...

Didn't Bishop Haywood have facial hair?
Wasn't there a time before facial hair became a sin to Oneness Pentecostals?

[Joseph Miller]

Originally Posted by Sam

Didn't Bishop Haywood have facial hair?
Wasn't there a time before facial hair became a sin to Oneness Pentecostals?

I believe you are right.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Caston Smith

... and I believe we should look our very best when going to the House of God. Amen?!

We don't go to the House of God,
we are the house of God.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by Joseph Miller

PLEASE DON'T preach against Deodrant.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Yet the Apostles of the 1st Century did not restrict themselves to only white tunics, etc. White is symbolic (as most every color is), but to put ones self into the position of telling other people what to wear and not to wear without any real Biblical support seems to me to be a bit presumptuous.

Something about the way you said this made me think that just maybe the hyper focus on colors and what they represent isn't exactly a good idea. Cuz..well...that sort of focus is pretty common in witchcraft. Colors are used quite extensively in magick and casting and the symbolic meaning of the color is used to call on powers that I don't think y'all are really aiming to call on in church service.

[Adino]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Again Adino I am trying to understand what you are saying?
Repentance requirs faith in God but NOT in Christ? Help me some here?
Again does regneration take place BEFORE and APART from repentance?

Steve, repentance is more than simple remorse. It involves more than a turning from sin. It involves a turning back to God. Turning TOWARD God in faith is the ultimate climax of repentance. It involves a reestablishment of God as the sovereign Lord of one's life. In sin faith is misdirected. It is channeled away from God toward man himself. Man trusts more in his own word than in the word of God. In repentance man redirects his dependency back to God. NT repentance required this dependency to be channeled through Jesus Christ. The man returning to God could only rightfully do so if he returned by placing his faith in Jesus Christ.

If a repentant man seeking to return to God has not been introduced to Jesus Christ he cannot yet place his faith in Him. While he may want to return to God with all his heart, he must still hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to reestablish right relationship. There is no other way.

"Again does regneration take place BEFORE and APART from repentance?"

No. Regeneration takes place at the moment man's heart converts to Christ. This regeneration unto life during the process of repenting is why repentance is said to be "repentance unto life/ to salvation." (Acts 11:8; 2Cor 7:9-10)

Can you give me your definition of repentance?

Originally Posted by Coffee99

See, when you added "ish" as in "roundish" that made you a raging liberal. "Ish" is a slippery slope.

I had to put the ish on there in case anyone like myself pointed out that the world is not perfectly round...

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Adino

Steve, repentance is more than simple remorse. It involves more than a turning from sin. It involves a turning back to God. Turning TOWARD God in faith is the ultimate climax of repentance. It involves a reestablishment of God as the sovereign Lord of one's life. In sin faith is misdirected. It is channeled away from God toward man himself. Man trusts more in his own word than in the word of God. In repentance man redirects his dependency back to God. NT repentance required this dependency to be channeled through Jesus Christ. The man returning to God could only rightfully do so if he returned by placing his faith in Jesus Christ.

If a repentant man seeking to return to God has not been introduced to Jesus Christ he cannot yet place his faith in Him. While he may want to return to God with all his heart, he must still hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to reestablish right relationship. There is no other way.

"Again does regneration take place BEFORE and APART from repentance?"

No. Regeneration takes place at the moment man's heart converts to Christ. This regeneration unto life during the process of repenting is why repentance is said to be "repentance unto life/ to salvation." (Acts 11:8; 2Cor 7:9-10)

Can you give me your definition of repentance?

I surely believe repentance is MORE than remorse that is conviction not necessarily repentance.
True repentance is where the convicted sinner confesses his sin-his need for the Saviour-and his turning from his sin to righteousness. However conviction is NOT repentance without the other components. Thanks for the answer though just a little muddy.

[chaotic_resolve]

Originally Posted by Caston Smith

What would you like? My phone number?? Address??? Driver's license????
www.myspace.com/castonsmith

I am who I say I am ... and I do most certainly feel that way about tie knots. Now I don't believe it's a sin if you don't wear a windsor knot, however I believe it's a lot more presentable than say a military knot.

Haha!

I'm sorry . . . but I find it absolutely amusing that someone would be so against a certain color among other things . . .

. . . and yet have a MYSPACE account!

[Truly Blessed]

Originally Posted by FRINGE_NUTTER

Acts 2:38 is still there, folks. The people said, "What shall we do"?? Peter told them. If they shall do it, shouldn't we do it? There is much more to living for God than Acts 2:38 but I believe that is the beginning of the process - which starts with repentance.

I respectfully disagree with you. The process begins with the Spirit drawing and man responding in faith, with repentance [change of heart and mind] taking place as a result of what the Spirit, through the Word, accomplishes in that person's heart. It's not a change of heart and mind [repentance] that produces faith in Christ, but the Spirit working in a person's life when he or she hears the Word that produces faith resulting in a change of heart and mind [repentance].