THE BOTTOM LINE REVEALED (STANDARDS)

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The question to ask ourselves  is why have standards?  Are standards 
man made, given by God or how do we get them?  The first problem is 
when people want to impose their standard, their own or the one of 
their church, on everybody else.  Their idea of holiness becomes the 
way they measure up people, if they meet their standard or of their 
church, they are holy, if not they are a compromiser. Whole churches 
and denominations are measured by their yardstick, their standard. If 
the standard is not found in scripture they quote some commandment 
and generalize the meaning and that way they justify having their 
standards.  A God given standard or conviction is ok but a man made 
one or one of a denomination is just their own standard to keep 
themselves from sinning or to keep the troops in the corral.  When 
they change pastors their standard changes, when they leave the 
church their standard changes, when they change denominations their 
standard changes, therefore revealing how little God or scripture 
produced their standards were.  Standards that last and are worth 
keeping are those that people keep regardless of the pastoral change, 
or the church change or the denomination changing.
When I see people suddenly change their standards I know it wasn't 
really a standard worth keeping in their heart.  Their convictions 
were not strong enough for them to continue in them, were they God 
given convictions, Bible based, or just some more standards imposed 
by man, invented by men or a denomination?
gdrost@nbnet.nb.ca