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Re: Apology
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Originally Posted by Cindy
Oh my goodness, people. The heart has to be clean and the the spirit right, no matter what. That should be our emphasis. And don't think for a minute that there is not a competition in Pentecostal churches, for women to have the most expensive clothes, the best hair, and their jewelry is in there hair or on their clothes.........Because there is. And the same with the men with their suits and hair styles.
Don't even get me started on cars and houses.
NONE of that makes us Holy or right with God, in fact it is just the opposite.
Yes, haughty spirits and looking down on people that can't afford to dress a certain way, exists in our churches just like it does in the world. And that is just WRONG!!
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But, on the other hand. We also have kind, loving, non judgmental people in our churches, too. And they far outweigh the other, and that's what draws people to them and to God. They don't care how you dress if you love them.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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