Ms.Honey
New Member
That's fair. The alcohol issue is a dead one to me because like the poster above me said, we have to agree to disagree. On judgement day everyone has to answer for themselves. Let me clarify and say I was referring to these "addition commandments" in general of what is/is not appropriate based on society at this time and not the Word per se. I have seen young ministers dressed as goths, excited about Christ. And yes they had piercings, tattoos. When people are trying to get their lives right, nobody needs to hear a speech about the frivolous, which is why I brought up the fact that it is a turnoff. Church has a always been full of too many who are far too concerned with the length of a skirt than what the needs of the people are. But I do agree, sometimes you have to keep it moving...
Like I said before pray. If He says it's ok for Christians to drink, have body piercings and tattoes then fine if He says no then don't. We will stand before Him and some will have to answer the question, "Why did you refuse to ask me?".
People are always going to find a reason to be turned off by church. We can't reach everyone, everyone doesn't want to be reached. Those are excuses to not attend. If folks don't believe that God cares about skirt length don't attend a church that does if He didn't tell you too. To me that's very uncomplicated.
Asking God what He wants us to do would save a lot of questions from being posted to this forum and a lot of e-debates from happening. Prayer is simple and quick and we can be assured that He will tell us the Truth if we REALLY want to know it. He's always right and knows all things. We have differing opinions. Why ask here?