Should we teach others to rebel against standards?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

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My point is that saying "Worldly businesses do X and everyone approves" is hardly a reason for the church doing the same thing. Kind of like this:

Mark 10:42-45 KJV
But Jesus called them to him , and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. [43] But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: [44] And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [45] For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Businesses enforce a dress code because the boss says so and wants it that way. The Boss in the church is Jesus Christ. The elders aren't little bosses, they are servants of the membership (not of the non profit corporation). The Bible contains God's divinely ordained dress code. That includes a prohibition against marring the borders of a man's beard. The examples in Scripture are given to teach us the mind of God. And they show that a man being without a beard was a negative.