Rings with a twist

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I totally agree with your pastor on the beard issue: there is not bible
for it! Although, some pastors feel that it has, in the past like the
60's, been a sign of rebellion, but that is the problem of those that
think like that. It is better to follow your convictions ( only if they
are within scripture of course) than to be a hypocrite. I pray you stand
strong through the criticisms ( if you suffer any).

Rob Nava
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>From: 	Tyler Nally[SMTP:tnally@csci.csc.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, August 07, 1996 4:35 AM
>To: 	higher-fire@prairienet.org
>Subject: 	Re: Rings with a twist
>
>Bro. Brian Berger wrote:
>
>> Do we just hold to somethings because we are desended from tradition?
>> Like rings and such.
>> 
>> Another bold question- why do we not see men with beards? 
>> The Scripture says plenty about the growth of facial but we 
>> have this Roman tradition that if we are fuzzy our relationship 
>> is too. Any thoughts?!?
>
>One things for sure, I'm not of apostolic decent (AD).  My kids are of
>AD.
>I didn't come into pentecost because I was raised in it.  I came into
>it 
>from Roman Catholic background about 12 years ago now.  
>
>I'm probably the *lone* apostolic on this list with a moustache/beard
>combination.  Years ago, my then pastor (Bro. Bob E. Koonce - now Sr.
>Pastor
>at the Gibson City Pentecostal Church) told me that there isn't any
>scripture 
>anywhere that says that having a beard is wrong.  And that he'd be
>wasting 
>his time trying to bring conviction upon me in trying to put together a
>bible 
>study in preaching against it.  He told me that if I wore a beard
>that's o.k. 
>with him, just go by my convictions.  He said he'd appreciate it if I
>were 
>clean shaven, but he can't and won't command it cause he has no
>scriptural 
>basis.  I don't let it grow long.  Maybe an inch or inch.5 long or so
>at the 
>very most, so it doesn't get scraggly.  
>
>Heh, heh.... I also kinda think he feels kinda sorry for me with a
>balding
>cranium on the other side of my head.  Kinda like the abundance on one
>end 
>balances out the lack on the other.
>
>Bro. Tyler
>