AFF apostolic or not?

[Narrow Is The Way]

Originally Posted by pelathais

NITW, I would invite you to "walk toward the light." When you allow the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to illuminate your heart you will realize that there is nothing that you can do to deserve or earn your salvation.

The people you describe in such derisive tones are simply folks that have realized that it's not always practical to dress like a Victorian patrician and still have the comfort and freedom of movement to get your job done.

And did it ever occur to you that when "you mention a particular standard or conviction that you hold" that you may be doing so in proud and arrogant way? Perhaps this is the reason you get "mock[ed] and make fun of those types of things..."

Face it, there is no Biblical basis for many of the "standards" that we have preached for the last 50 or 60 years. And most of our forefathers never held to them either. We've been making stuff up as we went along - then when some radical faction got angry because their brethren weren't "clean" enough and split the rest of the movement reacted by introducing new regulations just to try and "prove" how "clean" they really were.

When your most important guidance is coming from fearful and condemning brethren and not the Word of God, you're bound to go astray. Sadly, that's what happened to the Apostolic Faith Movement in the last half of the 20th century.

This statement is 100% false and you know it. You guys always go to the bad spirit card when you have been pinned to the wall and have no way of escape. Just automatically assume that a standard holder has a bad spirit. This is what you guys do when you have no scripture to prop up your failing belief system. I have not been arrogant in any way. I have expressed concern for the blinders that are over your eyes. So go to the bad spirit card all you want to but nobody with any common sense is buying it. It is just a cop-out for a belief system without boundaries. Oh but prax can be a name caller and that is not a problem. You guys anger is spilling through everbodys computer. I know, I make you uncomfortable because I am not afraid to tell you where I stand. Oh yeah, according to scripture FEAR is an acceptable tactic of preaching the gospel. See the 23 verse in the book of Jude.