New Testament Standards That We Choose to Ignore

Jehoram · #1 07-12-2007, 11:13 AM

I can name two.

1. Women keeping silent in church.
2. Social works (like taking care of the widows and the elderly).

What other NT teachings do we ignore?

rgcraig · #2 07-12-2007, 11:15 AM

Many ignore these, but I know what you are getting at.

Mark 10:19 (King James Version)

19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Jehoram · #3 07-12-2007, 11:17 AM

When was the last time you heard someone preach about lying or stealing? I mean actually preach a full sermon that was devoted to the topic?

mizpeh · #4 07-12-2007, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Alter Ego

When was the last time you heard someone preach about lying or stealing? I mean actually preach a full sermon that was devoted to the topic?

A few years ago when my pastor was teaching on holiness.

Jehoram · #5 07-12-2007, 11:20 AM

3. keep company with fornicators. 1 Corinthians 5: 9-10.

Ferd · #6 07-12-2007, 11:31 AM

CONTEXT!

Michael The Disciple · #7 07-12-2007, 11:38 AM

The standard for Christian living:

Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect. Matt. 5:48

Digging4Truth · #8 07-12-2007, 11:43 AM

Act 15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Act 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
Act 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Act 15:22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Act 15:23 And they wrote [letters] by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Act 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment:
Act 15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Act 15:26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Act 15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell Unregistered the same things by mouth.
Act 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Act 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Jehoram · #9 07-12-2007, 11:45 AM

Ferd, I love you but you know that, as a movement, we have a huge issue with conforming to only those things that fit our traditions. We say we are Apostolic, why is it that we don't follow Apostolic principles like caring for the widows and elderly? This was a huge issue in the first century church.

I'll tell you why. It doesn't fit what we want our church to be like. We view this sort of ministry as welfare and we are wrong. God will judge us harshly for our laziness and selfishness.

And then we whine and whine about stupid things that have no basis in God's word. Shorts, jewelry, television and the like. We're more worried about appearance than we are if someone is alone, and hurting, and hungry.

I don't for a moment believe that God is pleased.

Ferd · #10 07-12-2007, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Alter Ego

Ferd, I love you but you know that, as a movement, we have a huge issue with conforming to only those things that fit our traditions. We say we are Apostolic, why is it that we don't follow Apostolic principles like caring for the widows and elderly? This was a huge issue in the first century church.

I'll tell you why. It doesn't fit what we want our church to be like. We view this sort of ministry as welfare and we are wrong. God will judge us harshly for our laziness and selfishness.

And then we whine and whine about stupid things that have no basis in God's word. Shorts, jewelry, television and the like. We're more worried about appearance than we are if someone is alone, and hurting, and hungry.

I don't for a moment believe that God is pleased.

I love you to my brother. we just approach things a tad differently. My experience has always been in balanced churches with moderate pastors. those Conservitive men I have known and been around, the first thing you got from them is they loved both God and the Saints above all. So harshness and picking and chooseing has never been my experience.