I actually started growing mine out. I will now be the subject of sermons at my mothers church, if they knew I was growing it that is.
I have grown up being preached at because of one thing or the other. The part of my hair. The cloth in the breast pocket of my suit. The elastic waist in my pants. So they will not let you preach in some places and I supply them with their sermons in others.
That is funny... and I'm sure true. I just don't like having to try to defend something that is so indefensible by the Bible. I can't even think of a Biblical principle to apply in telling that to someone. It is those kinds of outrageous rules taught as doctrine that make some people see us as cultish.
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