This movement really concerns me. My pastor mentioned an instance where hair was used in an answered prayer in the pulpit a couple of Sundays ago. ( A pastor's wife took her hair down and prayed for protection of their house during Hurricane Rita and their house was unharmed) I think this is a growing movement in our ranks.
This movement really concerns me. My pastor mentioned an instance where hair was used in an answered prayer in the pulpit a couple of Sundays ago. ( A pastor's wife took her hair down and prayed for protection of their house during Hurricane Rita and their house was unharmed) I think this is a growing movement in our ranks.
of course it is growing. it is supported by the leadership. i am having issues with this.
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My goodness. After creation, prophecy, death, burial and resurrection and the Day of Pentecost - it wasn't enough. We need hair to seal the deal.
That is just too, awfully, horrible to embrace. The work of Jesus Christ wasn't enough. His blood, spirit and name was not enough. We need some hair to help us out.
We should allow this practice to continue and record every instance in which it is used. We should then broadcast those recordings on television as well as the Internet. Follow ups with prayers answered or not answered should also be broadcast.
Revisit the issue a few years later. Then, let's judge if it be of God or not. This way the entire world will also get to make the journey with us. They will be kept up to date on our victories and losses as they happen.
A real interest in the Acts 2:38 message will be generated. If we are embarassed by the whole process, we could just say, well, there's no such thing as bad publicity...
Then we could move on to the sale of uncut hair, rather, you would receive a lock of my grandmother's uncut hair in return for your faithful support of my ministry.
Of course, being faithful and all herself, granny would insist that the only way we would get her uncut hair would be "over her dead body..."
No problem..! Lots of faithful ladies have passed on. We must make it a practice to retain and preserve their hair for future generations (and the future earnings of my ministry...) Collections could be made at churches and then sent to a central site, sorted by hair color and other particulars. These would then be shipped out to children's hospitals and regions of famine around the world to bring the needed blessing contained within every follicle and satisfy every hungry soul.
Ladies save your old rats! ("Rats" is what they called the accumulated hair that a lady would collect from her brush each night. The hair would then be collected and brushed out and then worn as a "supplement" to the ever rising beehive hairdos of yesteryear). No more need for oatmeal cans and other similar building blocks to get the tower up to Babel-like proportions. With my scheme there will be enough "holy hair" available that every sister everywhere would be able to "supplement" the edifice upon her head.
BOOM will clean up after me; but first Prax will want to comb through my satire for "inappropriate" uses of the words "follicle," "edifice" and "granny."
When you've been away from the organization as many years as we have, you look back and see this stuff in a whole different light. To me, it sounds so "cultic" that it's scary. I have never considered the UPC a cult, and you all know that I love and respect the organization, but this is beyond freaky. If they accept this as a doctrinal position, which will happen if the leadership keeps pushing it, then they have just crossed the line into heresy.
When you've been away from the organization as many years as we have, you look back and see this stuff in a whole different light. To me, it sounds so "cultic" that it's scary. I have never considered the UPC a cult, and you all know that I love and respect the organization, but this is beyond freaky. If they accept this as a doctrinal position, which will happen if the leadership keeps pushing it, then they have just crossed the line into heresy.
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i guess i agree with this as much as i do the "spiritual laughter" stuff that i've seen.... I've also seen people sit around like the were drunk in the spirit acting just laughing, and then they would touch another and then that person would start laughing uncontrollable... It was real, I saw it with my own eyes, but I do believe they gave over to the wrong spirit!
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I knew a preacher who preached all the women were supposed to wear their hair UP to have POWER with the angels because the verse says "ON" her head - and he interpreted that to mean UP - not hanging down. Also, I have heard it taught that it was the sign of being a sinner to wear one's hair down, as the woman with the alabaster bottle had her hair down and she was a sinner.
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