LADIES please take my Holiness Test Thanks

[Sherri]

I wasn't oppressed and depressed when I was in UPC and holding to the standards that they set. I'm also not oppressed or depressed now! I'm pretty much a happy person, no matter the setting. I just am at a point now that I don't have to follow those rules anymore, because I'm not a part of it. However, to say that I feel "liberated" now - I guess I really never felt like I was in bondage. I was just in submission.

Hope that makes sense. I know what I'm TRYING to say. LOL!

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I wasn't oppressed and depressed when I was in UPC and holding to the standards that they set. I'm also not oppressed or depressed now! I'm pretty much a happy person, no matter the setting. I just am at a point now that I don't have to follow those rules anymore, because I'm not a part of it. However, to say that I feel "liberated" now - I guess I really never felt like I was in bondage. I was just in submission.

Hope that makes sense. I know what I'm TRYING to say. LOL!

Bless you for your honesty in this post!

Disclaimer: This is not to infer that I believe all your posts are honest nor should this response be seen as a wholesale endorsement of your worldliness, your backslidings or your charismatic, watered-down substitution of The Truth and the old tyme religion that was once delivered to the saints and is forever the unchangable unadulterated, immutable ever lovin beautiful gospel taught by the Apostles.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I wasn't oppressed and depressed when I was in UPC and holding to the standards that they set. I'm also not oppressed or depressed now! I'm pretty much a happy person, no matter the setting. I just am at a point now that I don't have to follow those rules anymore, because I'm not a part of it. However, to say that I feel "liberated" now - I guess I really never felt like I was in bondage. I was just in submission.

Hope that makes sense. I know what I'm TRYING to say. LOL!

This could have been written by me and expresses my feelings exactly.

[crakjak]

Originally Posted by StMark

O be quiet crackjack I've said little about the dress code for the women but the truth is,
whether we admit it or not it's our identification in Pentecost. no??
so why wouldn't it be a big topic?

I was just pulling yo chain bro, carry on!!

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Bless you for your honesty in this post!

[SIZE="1"]Disclaimer:[/SIZE] This is not to infer that I believe all your posts are honest nor should this response be seen as a wholesale endorsement of your worldliness, your backslidings or your charismatic, watered-down substitution of The Truth and the old tyme religion that was once delivered to the saints and is forever the unchangable unadulterated, immutable ever lovin beautiful gospel taught by the Apostles.

I totally missed the disclaimer the first time I read this post!!!

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I wasn't oppressed and depressed when I was in UPC and holding to the standards that they set. I'm also not oppressed or depressed now! I'm pretty much a happy person, no matter the setting. I just am at a point now that I don't have to follow those rules anymore, because I'm not a part of it. However, to say that I feel "liberated" now - I guess I really never felt like I was in bondage. I was just in submission.

Hope that makes sense. I know what I'm TRYING to say. LOL!

Originally Posted by Felicity

This could have been written by me and expresses my feelings exactly.

It's kinda funny... but, me too! Really.

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Sherri

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I totally missed the disclaimer the first time I read this post!!!

just a little fine print to avoid legal action.

[Kay B]

Originally Posted by cneasttx

He is my rock in this house sometimes. And he LOVES his granny. You should see his eyes light up and his face brighten when I pick him up from school. He calls me his baby too. Okay I am gonna cry I am so happy just thinking about him.........lol

Don't you make me cry!! You get to be with him ALL the time!!!

[Kay B]

I've been searching today for this song. I finally looked here for it.
This song ministered to me many years ago and still does.
I heard it live in Dallas,TX in the 80's Dan Dean sung it. The McGruders and Bro. & Sis Ewing at Reunion Arena. Evening of Pentecost was the concert name if my memory serves me correctly.

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...oose+christian


Verse 1: I met a man the other day
He looked and me and said
I've seen your kind so many times before
He said "you can't do this, you can't do that"
Your bound by rules and restrictions,
What a dreary life you Christians must observe.(go right to VERSE 2)

Verse 2: Well, I looked him in the eye and I said "YOU'RE WRONG!"
"I can do anything that turns me on, I can smoke 'till my eyes turn red and my face turns blue."
"I can chew and dip,I can snort and cuss. I can party and drink until the sun comes up, but there's better things in life I'd rather do." (You see ....CHORUS)

I choose to be a christian
I choose to be like him
Ain't noboby makin' me do it (The last time through they said "Ain't nobody holdin' a gun to my head)
This is how I want to live
You decide for you and I'll decide for me
the choice is mine this what I choose to be.

Verse 3: Well I must admit that from time to time, the thought of heaven keeps me towing the line.
But the Lord and his comming, sound too good to be true.
Oh, but if this was all just a fairy tale and there was no heaven and there was no hell... I'd still be happy, living like I do. (Cause you see....REPEAT CHORUS then BRIDGE)

Bridge: So don't look at me in sympathy.
And think that I've been cheated, by not doing all those things, that you call fun!
Oh, sometime when you're gettin' down, on the darker side of town
This choice I've made will be lifting me out of here! (REPEAT CHORUS then END)

[Fiyahstarter]

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace

Jeanie, I am not around a group that requires me to do anything yet I still hold to my standards... does that make something wrong with me?! No... Get over it ok??? I know that yall dont hold em and I dont care... doesnt mean that those of us who chose too are unhappy or are depressed... I think yall seem to be the ones who have more of an issue with it because you are the ones constantly talking about being in bondage... get a life....

I would have to say, it seems to me that the KEEPERS of the standards are the ones who do the most finger-pointing: "Thou art not holy unless...blah, blah, blah" ... not the other way around.

In other words, I seldom see people telling you to take your skirts off and wear jeans... or telling you to cut your hair ... or telling you to wear shorter sleeves... or telling you to put on makeup.

BUT...

I very OFTEN SEE brothers/sisters telling NON-KEEPERS of the standards that "they have fallen from full truth... they have started down that slippery slope... they are HELLBOUND etc. etc.

I don't care how my brother/sister dresses. (It's not my business.) I just wish the feeling was mutual.