Is Holiness Still Preached?

[jwharv]

I have heard messages on holiness preached in recent years. However I have not heard the old cloths line, standards messages as much as I did as a child..............

[Ron]

Originally Posted by jwharv

I have heard messages on holiness preached in recent years. However I have not heard the old cloths line, standards messages as much as I did as a child..............

What and how did they preach it?


It is interesting that these visitors would say something like this, and I think it is mainstream "Christianity" as well.

[jwharv]

Well it depends on the preacher on how it was preached. Because a few of them preached it as if it was a completely foreign concept to them. But several preached "Holiness as a way of life". That to be holy is something that affects every part of your life down to the most minute detail of your life.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by jwharv

Well it depends on the preacher on how it was preached. Because a few of them preached it as if it was a completely foreign concept to them. But several preached "Holiness as a way of life". That to be holy is something that affects every part of your life down to the most minute detail of your life.

Like attitudes, conduct, lifestyle.......clothing?


Woa Nelly, I said it!

[jwharv]

Originally Posted by Ron

Like attitudes, conduct, lifestyle.......clothing?


Woa Nelly, I said it!

Yes but not like the cloths line messages of old. Like in the old days when they would pick people out of the crowd to preach at.................

[Ron]

Originally Posted by jwharv

Yes but not like the cloths line messages of old. Like in the old days when they would pick people out of the crowd to preach at.................

Interesting

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by jwharv

Yes but not like the cloths line messages of old. Like in the old days when they would pick people out of the crowd to preach at.................

You'd better have a prayer meeting for the preacher that calls me out...

[Scott Hutchinson]

Our pastor teaches that we be should seperate from the world.
One can't preach or teach from the Bible without teaching and preaching Biblical holiness.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Ron

Like attitudes, conduct, lifestyle.......clothing?


Woa Nelly, I said it!

You are right, Ron. Holiness includes all of those things and, Oh my Lord, it does include how we dress. Who would have thunk? Novel idea, huh? :wink

The Bible speaks of modesty - God forbid.

I Tim 2:9
"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

2:10But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works."

This covers our actions "works" as well as our appearance in clothing. I don't believe the passage is saying not to wear these things. The larger meaning is - don't allow that to define you as a Christian woman.

It's not the things that we possess, but who we are.

So, yes, our holiness is a product of the inside working on the outside and we need to hear it preached.

It has nothing to do with opened-toed shoes or other such ridiculous personal teachings. That's what people get offended by and gravitate to when we speak of modesty of dress. Then they want to say holiness has nothing to do with our outward appearance. That cannot be true.

Holiness in the Greek is defined as: godliness, holiness, sanctification, purification. That cannot be an inside work only. It will not stop there.

Romans 6:19
"I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness."

II Cor 7:1
"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

It is a work of the spirit and the flesh. The inside working on the outside.

[LaVonne]

I don't know...we've been here for 4 months and have heard nothing from the pulpit. However, the Pastor's wife frequently talks to teenage girls and sometimes their mother about low necklines, and too tight of clothing.