Correct, mature faith will overcome tradition and fear.
I have no doubt that many OP ladies, when seeing other OP ladies start wear pants, the fear just rises up in them, "because of what they were taught".
"Love casts out fear", therefore if it is not a sin for ladies to wear pants, no matter how long it has be taught, the fear needs to go.
I remember to this day, when the need to judge others spiritual temperature, particularly concerning dress and apparel, disappeared from my consciousness, it was one of the most freeing experiences of my life.
I am still amazed at how large those issues were in our lives, such a waste of time and emotional energy.
Yeah. Even took me awhile to get that knee jerk judgmental reaction out of me when I saw sisters wearing pants, make-up, etc.
Yeah. Even took me awhile to get that knee jerk judgmental reaction out of me when I saw sisters wearing pants, make-up, etc.
Absolutely!!!
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
This desperate, and last-ditch argumentation is used by many standards-preaching churches, as a way to justify a position that some find unreasonable.
Two primary objections:
1) The position can be turned right back on them by someone much more conservative. I guess they aren't too safe after all! You can see the extremes...
2) Such a statement makes the Grace of God seem fragile, God's control weak and His Providence lacking.
Do we ever hear ourselves sometimes?
What I realized, finally, after years and years of believing this, was that I wasn't safe believing it either.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
Correct, mature faith will overcome tradition and fear.
I have no doubt that many OP ladies, when seeing other OP ladies start wear pants, the fear just rises up in them, "because of what they were taught".
"Love casts out fear", therefore if it is not a sin for ladies to wear pants, no matter how long it has be taught, the fear needs to go.
I remember to this day, when the need to judge others spiritual temperature, particularly concerning dress and apparel, disappeared from my consciousness, it was one of the most freeing experiences of my life.
I am still amazed at how large those issues were in our lives, such a waste of time and emotional energy.
More often, at least for me, it was confusion, not fear. I had no Biblical reason for a lot of the things I was doing. I'd been taught any woman that wore jeans or makeup or short sleeves or slits was wrong, lost, or backslid, but here were women happily serving and worshiping God, friendly and open and accepting. At the time I was under condemnation for even eating with anyone and had basically been shunned from within my own church. So there was a group who dressed exactly right but left me in tears, and another group who were "living in sin" by the standards definitions I'd been taught who were showing the love of God. Everything seemed upside down and backward about that. (Because it was...)
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
What I realized, finally, after years and years of believing this, was that I wasn't safe believing it either.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
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