God is All Knowing So Why Does it Matter?

rgcraig · #1 12-29-2008, 09:42 AM

What's the difference?

A minister watches DVD movies with his family and is open about it.

A minister watches DVD movies with his family and is closed about it.

Just because minister "A" is open about it, why does that make him worse than minister "B" that does the same thing, but doesn't talk about it?

jtork · #2 12-29-2008, 09:44 AM

Maybe minister "B" feels convicted about it but does it anyway - maybe that is why he hides it.

rgcraig · #3 12-29-2008, 09:47 AM

Or maybe minister B knows it really doesn't matter, but if it might be a stumbling block to someone else chooses to hide it????

Aquila · #4 12-29-2008, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

What's the difference?

A minister watches DVD movies with his family and is open about it.

A minister watches DVD movies with his family and is closed about it.

Just because minister "A" is open about it, why does that make him worse than minister "B" that does the same thing, but doesn't talk about it?

I'd say minster B is being a hypocrit, especially if he teaches against it.

rgcraig · #5 12-29-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Aquila

I'd say minster B is being a hypocrit, especially if he teaches against it.

What if he doesn't teach against it, but knows that others around him do?

StMark · #6 12-29-2008, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

What's the difference?

A minister watches DVD movies with his family and is open about it.

A minister watches DVD movies with his family and is closed about it.

Just because minister "A" is open about it, why does that make him worse than minister "B" that does the same thing, but doesn't talk about it?

Was this something you just thought of off the top OR do you have specific names of persons you know of who fit this senerio ?

jtork · #7 12-29-2008, 09:51 AM

Well the others around him will probably never find out anyway - they are probably too busy watching the same stuff on the internet

rgcraig · #8 12-29-2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by StMark

Was this something you just thought of off the top OR do you have specific names of persons you know of who fit this senerio ?

I could probably fill the names in several times over -

rgcraig · #9 12-29-2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by jtork

Well the others around him will probably never find out anyway - they are probably too busy watching the same stuff on the internet

LOL - - good point - another thread perhaps!

HeavenlyOne · #10 12-29-2008, 10:01 AM

God judges from our inside.

We judge one another from our outside.

I was speaking to a friend of mine just last night about how different standards is preached today than it was 100 years ago.

If the UPC existed in 1900, how would they have preached holiness and separation in dress, considering that most of America in that age and time dressed the same among the sexes? Even the harlots in the saloons had long hair and dresses on!

We need to get back to the basics of what's important. Dress and hair isn't what's important as to a person's salvation. If we let God worry about issues only He should be worried about, how much larger would our churches be? How much happier of a people would we be to the sinners in our society? How much witnessing would actually have to be done if we just allowed our lights to shine instead of beating people with our flashlights?

RRH just preached at some convention with DKB recently. My friend is disturbed and thinking that her pastor is going to endorse the magic hair teachings, which she refuses to believe. Is this what the UPC is going to be all about now? Is this what the old-time Azuza revival hoped for 100 years later?

I hope not. The UPC is raising a generation of Pharisees...people who think that what they look like and how loud they pray is what makes them holy...and the kids are buying it.

God help us.