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Originally Posted by Holy Roller
Thanks.
Like I said, they love people. They help them financially, pray for them, with them, encourage them to be involved in and regularly attend church, but correcting them in center areas of their life, they don't do. There's almost no outward attire standard; makeup, jewelry, women wearing pants, cut hair, pierced ears, cloud the congregation, and has found its way into the pulpit. The pastors themselves have backslidden in their appearance.
This confused me. The Spirit still moves in their services, so how could their decision to "let go of tradition" (as they seem to call it) necessarily be bad? I finally came back to realization that the Lord was simply having mercy on them, hoping they'd come back to Him solely.
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That is wonderful that they love people and genuinely try to minister to them. But they are not doing anyone any favors by abandoning Biblical lifestyle paths. You are so right that God is merciful and lovingly moves on wayward folks of all stripes. I've seen Him do it among ultra-ultra-conservatives all the way to loosy-goosy, greasy-grace liberals. Return, return, return, return, He says. The goodness of God still is what turns men to repentance. I can testify to that personally.
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