To Beard or Not to Beard, That is The Question

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

Funny growing up I played high school baseball. One of the requirements was to be clean shaven. Don’t shave your off the team. Nobody questioned it we all shaved. The only reasoning we ever got was to look as clean as possible on the field. Not one time did anyone ever quit for it to my knowledge. Another time I had young man in the youth group that wanted to be used. I told him he needed to shave if he wanted to be used. He didn’t agree didn’t shave and eventually backslid. Ran into him one day at McDonald’s where he recently got a job. Clean shaven. I said “ oh you shaved “ and he said “ yah it’s a requirement here to work “. Funny people only balk at standards in the church. Not one person have I ever heard preached it using “ chapter “ and “ vs “ but only as a standard. I think it’s still a good standard.

I like being cleaned shaven, but I’m no one’s mother, father, or employer.
If they want to shave like me, fine, but if they grow a beard, I can’t make them shave, or suggest they shave. I can explain a whole lot with the Book, but whiskers? There is more in the Bible to have one then to not have one.