To Beard or Not to Beard, That is The Question

[loran adkins]

Originally Posted by Apostolic1ness

So you dont believe there is leadership within the Church? Elders, deacons, Bishops, Pastors, etc? Do leaders "have the rule over you"? Who are you submitted to if not to leadership?
Are you not allowed to place things within the categories of "such like" as in Galatians 5:21.
How do you define sin? is it a list?

It is funny how quick we forget Jesus teaching by just one verse taken out of context or interpreted wrong.

Mat 20:25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
Mat 20:26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mat 20:27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Mat 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

We don't find any of the apostles lording it over the church. Anywhere. Yet we see that kind of lording in most of our churches today. A concept that was started by Catholicism and kept by those in ministry today.

Even Paul when he list the things that are wrong he did not go as far as our ministers go and make up a list of tangible things, but only list things of spiritual nature.