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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Murphy <tes@moscom.com> writes:

    Mike> At 09:19 02/01/1996 -0500, Bro.Foster wrote:
    >> And so is a Church!  I believe that Mike is missing the point!
    >> We are not all hung up on the dress and the hair doctines of
    >> the scriptures.  They are just the result of a heart felt
    >> response to God's Holy Word.  The Bible is full of scriptures
    >> on love, grace, lovingkindness, honesty, righeousness of the
    >> heart etc. but these do not in any way shape or form detract
    >> from the need for us to have outward holiness (separation from
    >> sin separation to God).

    Mike> I have been in churches where I was not allowed to testify
    Mike> for *one* reason.  There was a beard on my face. That's not
    Mike> antichristian and legalistic Bro.Foster? The fact that I
    Mike> went from LSD to worshipping God like a trooper didn't
    Mike> count, as long as I had a beard? Remember, Yeshua said, "No
    Mike> longer judge by the look of the face, but judge righteous
    Mike> judgement." Legalistic rules should not get in the way, and
    Mike> in some cases, they obviously have.

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    Mike> Don't mean to have a bad attitude... Remember, RULES and
    Mike> GUIDELINES are from God, but traditions from Dale Carnegie
    Mike> are worthless IMHO.

I agree about traditions from Dale Carnegie, but requests from your
pastor are a different matter.  I trust you have found yourself a
church where the pastor does not condemn you for your beard.  I went
from drugs to God in a UPC church, but no one ever said a thing about
my mustache.  I even married a wonderful Pentecostal woman who was
raised in the Church all her life while I had that mustache.  After we
had been married almost a year, I got aggravated at it because I had
to trim it so often.  (The reason I grew the thing in the first place
was because I hated to shave.)  So I cut it off.  My wife cried!  I
did not look like the man she had married.  She got over it in less
than an hour, and I have looked even *MORE* Pentecostal since then.

I was fortunate to start out in a church with a pastor who understood
that holiness is more than dress.  I do, however, feel that if you
have decided that a particular church is where you should be, and the
pastor wants all the men to wear fluorescent orange socks, then you
should wear them!

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