How do you like your holiness preaching?

[anapko]

Originally Posted by Sheltiedad

What boggles my mind is the people who look forward to those sermons, sit through them, cry their eyes out at the altar, then all go out to eat together and then repeat the entire cycle at the next service.... I think that some people just get a "lift" from being ripped to emotional shreds and then are able to sing kumbaya about it together when it is all over.

They did this to us in boot camp also, but thankfully it was only once in an eight week period.

Shel...you are hitting this on the head! I used to go to the campmeetings where every, and I mean every preacher would slam women in their sermons, or rap tv's, accuse the teens of every evil under the sun. Sad to say, I sat through a lot of them and I never saw masses of people receive the Holy Ghost through all of it!

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by mfblume

It is sad that "holiness" became synonymous with what we wear. But that's the way it is amongst some circles.

Again, this is a direct tangent of the "hair bobbin song" thread. In particular the post where it was mentioned that some even run the isles to that travesty of a song.

[anapko]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Again, this is a direct tangent of the "hair bobbin song" thread. In particular the post where it was mentioned that some even run the isles to that travesty of a song.

But I believe that they'll run to just about anything! But that could start another thread, don't you think? Title: " What Makes You Run Around Church? "

Originally Posted by Blubayou

I like holiness preaching to emphasize the importance inward holiness, Fruit of the Spirit , and New Testament principles that is reflected in the way we treat one another and our modest lifestyle.

Yes

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

The other parody of a thread made me think of this subject since I think it really cuts to the matter.

Many pages were spent disussing a song about how "wrong" it was to for our girls to have bobbed hair. Apart from the fact that I don't even agree with the premise, lets assume that the basic concept is sound. And not just about hair, but about make up and pants and yada yada yada....

Since MOST agreed that it was not the best thing to put to song, I am assuming that there would be more varied opinions when talked about from behind the pulpit. If you DO like it preached hot and heavy, then why? If your already following the "rules", why do you like to keep hearing it? If I could put a poll within a poll and you answered 1 or 2, I would then ask: 1) Does it make you feel more saved since your already following the rules? 2) Do you feel good about the person a few pews down squirming? 3) Do you think it wins souls?

How do you like, or prefer, to hear holiness preached or teached?

I think anointed pastors and/or teachers should have the freedom to address issues of concern in a supportive fashion without too much second guessing.

The focus of the church's preaching should always be "Jesus Christ and Him crucified." Folks are more ammendable to discipleship and teaching when they feel confident that the church has Jesus Christ in the proper focus.

And discipleship is just that. We lose people when we are inconsistant in our message.

Keep Christ as the focus and leave some of the "your knickers are showing" stuff to one on one encounters.

[Coffee99]

If the holiness preaching was about attitudes, what is on the inside, how we live and treat others, etc., then it would be great to have it often. Usually, it's nothing more than the outside appearance, going to movies, going to "worldly places", etc. Most of it I've heard was only about what you look like, how pious you act, etc. and not really holiness.

[Coffee99]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

What really inspired me to even ask the question was, again, the bobbed hair song. Do people need to sing such songs and hear it shouted over the pulpit constantly in order to feel like they are worthy/superior/separated/saved?

Do people even use the phrase "bobbed hair" anymore? Didn't that stop in the 1920's or 1930's? And "ear bobs" - who in the modern world other than those stuck in a time warp uses that term? Poor "bob" - he must have really made someone mad!

[Coffee99]

Originally Posted by anapko81

But I believe that they'll run to just about anything! But that could start another thread, don't you think? Title: " What Makes You Run Around Church? "

Why don't they just go to a gym or go jogging?

[SDG]

All this time I thought it was HIS HOLINESS

Originally Posted by Coffee99

If the holiness preaching was about attitudes, what is on the inside, how we live and treat others, etc., then it would be great to have it often. Usually, it's nothing more than the outside appearance, going to movies, going to "worldly places", etc. Most of it I've heard was only about what you look like, how pious you act, etc. and not really holiness.

That was why I said I don't care for it.....its not true holiness but appearance....