Standards protect inward holiness!!!!!

[Darcie]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

The answer is quite the opposite. In most cases it provides a FEELING (or an illusion) that the inward holiness is there, without it actually being so. All because the attention is so laser focused on the internals based on a written or unwritten church rule book.

Amen! I remember thinking "oh I'm going to heaven I don't cut my hair, where pants, etc.". But know what? my insides were ugly. Standards do not protect inward holiness. You have to work on that daily. With prayer, devotions, worship, and all that good stuff.