Black Apostolic Hair blog touts Stoneking and HMH

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Hard to believe people think that something they can DO or NOT DO will award them power with God when in fact what CHRIST DID ON THE CROSS is the ONLY thing that grants such a thing. Slowly the cross is being eroded away from certain groups.

You are much more of a theologian than I am, however I do have a question.
What I have always been taught and read would lead me to believe that what Christ did on the Cross, grants me salvation.
There is no work of mine that can grant me salvation.
However, additional power with God results from following after him with my entire being.
Am I on a wrong track here, in your opinion?

[Esther]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Hard to believe people think that something they can DO or NOT DO will award them power with God when in fact what CHRIST DID ON THE CROSS is the ONLY thing that grants such a thing. Slowly the cross is being eroded away from certain groups.

What about fasting that is something you can do to affect power with God, don't you think?

[Sam]

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In other news, some of the younger Trouts seem to have had a change of mind on such matters.[/QUOTE]

good, maybe there's hope for us with the younger generation

(spoken by someone from the older generation)

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Sam

good, maybe there's hope for us with the younger generation

(spoken by someone from the older generation)

Albeit, the older generation has been inducted to the Order of the Faith ....

http://oof.upci.org/2009.asp

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by ILUVHIM

In most African-American church the length of the hair is not the issue, since most of the females tend to wear a hat or prayer cloth as a covering. That is a whole other issue.

That is what I am familiar with from my Dad's church and was shocked that the white Apostolic sisters were in darkness concerning head covering for women, once I started attending UPCI churches.

[Apocrypha]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

That is what I am familiar with from my Dad's church and was shocked that the white Apostolic sisters were in darkness concerning head covering for women, once I started attending UPCI churches.

You cannot forget that fact that many black women straighten their hair with chemicals and it breaks off after a certain length.

Jamacians and Islanders wear hats. There is a church of 800 in Miami that is Apostolic, they started their own work from the UPCI work I grew up in. Its wall to wall hats.

[johnny44]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

That is what I am familiar with from my Dad's church and was shocked that the white Apostolic sisters were in darkness concerning head covering for women, once I started attending UPCI churches.

It was never a issue in the COTLJCOTAF.My wife said that their hair didn't grow long.

[MissBrattified]

First of all, I think it's really cool that the author of the blog is growing her hair out naturally and demonstrating how it can be done without trimming, if you take care of your hair throughout the growth process. That's a big trend among some secular [black] groups anyway. (Going au naturel with their hair.)

Secondly, it's disheartening to see the extra-biblical HMH doctrine spread around, and used as a prop to help women feel better about their long hair, and to motivate them to keep it uncut. *sigh*

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

First of all, I think it's really cool that the author of the blog is growing her hair out naturally and demonstrating how it can be done without trimming, if you take care of your hair throughout the growth process. That's a big trend among some secular [black] groups anyway. (Going au naturel with their hair.)

Secondly, it's disheartening to see the extra-biblical HMH doctrine spread around, and used as a prop to help women feel better about their long hair, and to motivate them to keep it uncut. *sigh*