I voted start looking for a new church...He would have no Bible right to make a law like that...he might tell the evils of red meat and suggest not eating it but to make it a law is not my type pastor....sorry...next thing he might serve might be Kool-Aid....
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Originally Posted by ILG
You didn't have my option. Leave the church.
What if that church is the only option for an "apostolic believeing/teaching(outside of the no red meat doctorine) church" to attend?
__________________ As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.- Gal. 6:14
What if that church is the only option for an "apostolic believeing/teaching(outside of the no red meat doctorine) church" to attend?
Then you are toast.
In that case, I would probably obey, because I always did what the preacher told me to do, until I went nearly insane with rules and seeing the inconsistency and hypocrisy around me, left after I understood (and ONLY after I understood) that what they were telling me was not true.
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What if that church is the only option for an "apostolic believeing/teaching(outside of the no red meat doctorine) church" to attend?
Then I'd look for any church with a pastor that would stay out of my personal business. If their doctrine was a bit different, so be it -- I would still hold on to my beliefs regardless.
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I would give him a copy of Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution!
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If a pastor/church leader asks all his constituents to give up red meat because he is convinced it's unhealthy what would you do?
I would say no, I love a good Black Angus Beef Burger.
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2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I think I personally, would probably have to stay put, keep eating red meat at my house if my wife was hopefully in agreeance, and overlook the non red meat doctorinal nonsense. I probably would not invite anybody over for a t bone, because then I could be accused of sewing discord/disunity. But if no other church around believed and taught acts 2:38 as the follow up answer to the preaching of the cross (what must we do?), then I'd have to stay put, because to me, that is a minimum priority that I would want my children to know should be in a church of personal choice. Of course as has been posted, whats next after no red meat?
__________________ As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.- Gal. 6:14
If a pastor/church leader asks all his constituents to give up red meat because he is convinced it's unhealthy what would you do?
To ask or mandate?
To me is a big difference.
To mandate, would be to much. To request is ok with the explanation if is heathier for you. NOT a doctrine.
And then I would continue to eat red meat.
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Sometimes pastors ask, say it's not salvational and then say people who don't comply are in rebellion. That makes people between a rock and a hard spot.
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