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Re: You not preaching holiness till you've named i
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Originally Posted by mfblume
Just my two cents.... no one would walk away from the bible had they read it for the first time, and talk so much about clothing like all of you do.  And no one would equate "holiness" with clothing standards. |
It is interesting that in the New Testament we never see Jesus and his disciples being noted for their dress or appearance being different than the culture around them.
I can't count how many times growing up in old time Pentecost I have heard preachers misapply the scripture about being a "peculiar people" to mean the dress code.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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