Trinitarians on Our Platforms

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At 10:05 PM 7/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I guess we also have to consider that the death of Jesus marked the beginning
>of the dispensation of grace, which includes the holiness standards such as a
>man wearing a beard.  So in the time of Jesus and the apostles walking the
>earth, beards weren't thought wrong in any fashion.  Excuse me for saying so,
>but I think the whole beard issue is pretty irrelevant to whether or not we
>should place people who teach false doctrines on the platform of the true
>church of God.  I may not know it all, but this just seems terribly wrong to
>me.  It's not time to let down, and letting down will never lead to revival.
> Go back a few years and see if some of the old-timers would have ever
>considered the idea.  Are we tightening up our standards or lowering them?  I
>pray it's the former.
>Amanda,
No minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ has the right to go beyond
scripture in anything!  Growing a beard or a moustache is not letting the
standard down.
To go beyond God's revealed will (His Word), is to preach man made doctrines.
Just because something is a preachers pet peave is no reason to impose it on
a local church.  Our view should be "in essentials unity, in non-essentials
liberty, in all things love". We as pentecostals know what the Bible teaches.
Things such as modesty of dress, and having the love of Jesus in us are
Biblical.       
thank You,

rev. Anthony Lawson