No Thanks, I Will Stay Old Time Pentecost

[Shawn]

I wonder if the Early Church and The Apostles themselves would pass the standards. FWIW I had fairly long hair(I'm a musician and private guitar teacher) and a goatee when I was baptized in Jesus name and tarried and filled with the Holy Ghost.

I still think ultimately Jesus is much more interested in where our hearts are.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Shawn

I wonder if the Early Church and The Apostles themselves would pass the standards. FWIW I had fairly long hair(I'm a musician and private guitar teacher) and a goatee when I was baptized in Jesus name and tarried and filled with the Holy Ghost.

I still think ultimately Jesus is much more interested in where our hearts are.

Jesus is! Remember folks Jesus said it's not what goes in that defiles a man but what comes out
Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mar 7:22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mar 7:23 All these evil things pass out from inside and defile the man.

And for all their outward appearences we have yet to perfected ourselves folks. Divorce is too high in our ranks. Adultery, Fornication, lying, defrauding, gossiping, pride...ego....

The problem I believe are not outward "standards" but the emphasis on THEM being salvational (saving us) and not focusing on real sins and the fruit of the Spirit