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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:56:42 -0600 "Cary & Audrey Robison"
<robisonc@telusplanet.net> writes:

>At a camp meeting in Saskatchewan a few years ago, the superintendent 
>of a UPCI district in the U.S. delighted the crowd during a sermon as he

>proudly told them he had 60 black familes in his church "and not a
mustache
>anywhere. Not one!"
>
>"Sixty Hispanics. Not a mustache anywhere!"

But how many prayer warriors?  It's too easy to clean up the outside and
"Pentecostalize".

>"They say, 'Give me Scripture for shaving it off.'  Hebrews 13:17 -- 
>obey them that have the rule over you."
>
>"That's all the Scripture you need!" he shouted. "That's *all* you 
>need!"

I, of course, disagree.

>With my heart yearning for holiness, inside and out, I suppose I could
>simply have added an "amen" to the roar of approving shouts and 
>clapping that his remark drew. Instead, with my heart also yearning for
>understanding, I was left disturbed by the potential dangers of this 
>type of teaching.

Because it allows people to be spiritually lazy.  They think they don't
have to search out their own salvation with fear and trembling.  It
allows them to spiritually roll with whatever comes along without taking
responsibility with their lives.  And this IS one extreme.  The other is
the brash person who refuses to be led regardless what it is.  

Both are dangerous, IMHO.  

>I don't have a mustache myself. And, considering the common 
>Pentecostal peer pressure regarding appearance, sometimes 
>I wonder if that choice was made for all the *wrong* reasons.

There came a time in my life when I had to re-examine WHY I believed what
I did.  I had been living in the "Obedient and Ignorant" phase.  Ask
Tyler.  He said jump, I jumped.  He said do this, I did it.  Do that?  It
was done.

And because I refused to think before I blindly obeyed, I lost a few
years of spiritual growth and gained several spiritual scars that took
years to heal.

>Cary "praising God for my excellent pastor" Robison

We can ALL thank God for our Pastors.

But mine is better than yours!  <G>  

Jerry Welch

www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2810/

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