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Originally Posted by Narrow Is The Way
Pastor Salaz, You do have some good info. in your posts. Since you just stumbled upon this forum let me tell you exactly what is going on here. This forum is a mixture of a lot of different things. There are many people here who once held to certain standards but have dropped them like a hot potato. These are men and women who are walking away from the light. They are not walking towards the light. If you mention a particular standard or conviction that you hold, they begin to mock and make fun of those types of things. ...
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NITW, I would invite you to "walk toward the light." When you allow the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to illuminate your heart you will realize that there is nothing that you can do to deserve or earn your salvation.
The people you describe in such derisive tones are simply folks that have realized that it's not always practical to dress like a Victorian patrician and still have the comfort and freedom of movement to get your job done.
And did it ever occur to you that when "you mention a particular standard or conviction that you hold" that you may be doing so in proud and arrogant way? Perhaps this is the reason you get "mock[ed] and make fun of those types of things..."
Face it, there is no Biblical basis for many of the "standards" that we have preached for the last 50 or 60 years. And most of our forefathers never held to them either. We've been making stuff up as we went along - then when some radical faction got angry because their brethren weren't "clean" enough and split the rest of the movement reacted by introducing new regulations just to try and "prove" how "clean" they really were.
When your most important guidance is coming from fearful and condemning brethren and not the Word of God, you're bound to go astray. Sadly, that's what happened to the Apostolic Faith Movement in the last half of the 20th century.
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