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05-22-2007, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman
Did you get my pm?
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I sent you a reply ... but now that I go back to my outbox... I see it did not go thru ... I'll respond once I get home.
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05-22-2007, 03:46 PM
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It's not easy being me.
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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman
I know it just a scenario, but I'm trying to get an answer from the more "conservative".
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What if the more conservative took a look at that scenario and made a couple simple changes to it... Just replacing the fact that she didn't have on a ring, and therefore the hungry soul turned away from her, to the fact that she had on a ring, and the hungry soul turned away because she was a ring wearing floosy.
lol
There's all kinds of people in the world with all manner of opinions, and you can't please every one of them.
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05-22-2007, 04:02 PM
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uncharismatic conservative maverick
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Originally Posted by chseeads
What if the more conservative took a look at that scenario and made a couple simple changes to it... Just replacing the fact that she didn't have on a ring, and therefore the hungry soul turned away from her, to the fact that she had on a ring, and the hungry soul turned away because she was a ring wearing floosy.
lol
There's all kinds of people in the world with all manner of opinions, and you can't please every one of them.
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Actually, the way that it was reworded is more of a stretch than the way I posted, but okay if you say so.
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05-22-2007, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ChicagoPastor
There is a pretty conservative Pastor here on the East Coast who was dead against wedding rings. He changed his view, because he said he noticed how people at restaurants, shopping centers, ect would look at his church girls who didn't have wedding rings but pushed baby strollers.
His observation was that people looked down on them because they figured that since they didn't have a ring on, they were single mom who had babies out of wedlock.
THIS WAS HIS REASONING for changing his stance....
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I think he was a wise man. What many Christians tend to forget is that our witness is for the sake of those who do not know Christ, NOT for those who are in the church, so that we can have their approval. When an unsaved person sees a woman without a wedding ring on pushing a stroller through the mall or down the street, they are not going to think they are looking at a godly woman because she doesn't have a ring on. They will be guided by their cultural reference point and assume she is a single mother who had a child out of wedlock. That is not much of a witness if you ask me!
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05-22-2007, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Truly Blessed
I think he was a wise man. What many Christians tend to forget is that our witness is for the sake of those who do not know Christ, NOT for those who are in the church, so that we can have their approval. When an unsaved person sees a woman without a wedding ring on pushing a stroller through the mall or down the street, they are not going to think they are looking at a godly woman because she doesn't have a ring on. They will be guided by their cultural reference point and assume she is a single mother who had a child out of wedlock. That is not much of a witness if you ask me!
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What is also disturbing is the large numbers of divorced young mothers pushing those strollers...
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05-22-2007, 05:59 PM
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Invisible Thad
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
What is also disturbing is the large numbers of divorced young mothers pushing those strollers...
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In the church ????
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05-22-2007, 06:01 PM
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Supercalifragilisticexpiali...
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Originally Posted by Thad
In the church ????
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Yes. Don't tell me you don't see this.
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I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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05-22-2007, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
He certainly was a godly man would you wear a gold chain????
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Joseph was a godly man, and if he felt no condemnation in wearing a ring on his finger and a gold chain around his neck, why would we feel we shouldn't?
Anyway, if you're going to hold to the view that Paul was forbidding the wearing of gold jewelry, pearls, and expensive clothes, etc., that was directed to women, so I'm still okay. 
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05-22-2007, 06:10 PM
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Psalms 132:1
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I'm puzzled?
If she was wearing a wedding ring how come the divorce?
I thought the wedding ring kept men from making advances on a married woman?
The wedding ring protection myth sounds a lot like the majical hair myth to me.
Extra Biblical requirements.
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05-22-2007, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
What is also disturbing is the large numbers of divorced young mothers pushing those strollers...
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...and down the aisle to witness their second marriage!
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