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Originally Posted by TRFrance
Elistism? Maybe its just a matter of being true to one's convictions.
Someone else might want to argue that those convictions are off base, or out of step with the times, or whatever. But a person's convictions are their convictions, so personally I always respect the fact that a person decides to remain true to those convictions regardless of how popular/unpopular they are.
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Being true to ones convictions is fine with me. Infact, I am all for personal convictions not corporate ones. I expect rules on dress at work. I expect to hear teaching on modesty. Modesty has everthing to do with dressing properly. But I disagree on that standards/dresscode is the only modest way to dress. IMO.
My point in my post was to say that there are churches/people that have an elitist system going on. Like the church I mentioned in Ill. They could not and would not fellowship with another Apostolic church in the same community to reach the community. The UPC church had nearly no families from that community that went to the church except bus kids. The Apostolic church was full from the people from the community. There are people that will not fellowship others of non-standards belief because they either do not want their saints to see you can be Apostolic with out a dress code or they feel that they are at a 'higher light' or more 'revelation' than the non-standard church. That somehow makes them think they are better-that they can not lower themselves just for fellowship. That is what I mean about elitism. There are elitist on this forum. Doesn't make them bad people but they would not fellowship me if I pastored in the same town. IMP
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