Christmas Trees on Pentecostal platforms

[votivesoul]

James,

If there are legitimate problems in a church, and nothing is being done about them, there are usually only two possible reasons:

1.) Ignorance
2.) Hypocrisy

The people don't know there are problems and so, never deduce that ought should be done.

Or, the people know things are not right, and are keeping things in the wrong on purpose.

You have to decide which is the case in your case, and then, what you might do about either/or.

If this was your church assembly you were talking about, it clearly bothers you enough to reach out to a bunch of strangers on a forum to gather opinions. But has it bothered you enough to speak to your church about it?

If the placing of a Christmas tree in the building the church uses is a sin in your eyes, or if demanding men be clean shaven to minister from the platform is a sin in your eyes, if you can thicken your skin for a moment and relax regarding Evangelist Benincasa for a moment, you'd realize that he is right.

You're either going to have to say nothing and live with that, if you can.

Or, you're going to have to step up, man up, and go be an adult and have an adult conversation with the leadership and get the skinny on what's going on, and what if anything, they are willing to do to make changes.

Or, you can find yourself a new assembly.

Listen, not a single one of those three choices is easy. They are all fraught with consequences, some potentially worse for you than others. Which one is right? Well, that's up to you and the Lord. But unless and until you make a choice on one of them, you aren't going to get the answers you really want, and you certainly won't receive the peace you really need.