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>I well know that what's on the inside is reflected on what is on the outside.
>I don't think anybody is *ever* taken aside to tell them to do this or that.
>The concept we use is to let God do the work on them as the need arises.
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>Bro. Tyler
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Bro. Tyler, I have to disagree with you on one statement. I can tell you
from my own personal experience people are taken aside. When I started
attending a UPC church, I was 13. I knew the women wore dresses and had long
hair, but I didnt notice specifics, they were pretty much dressed the same
way that many of the baptists I knew dressed. My second service there, I
wore a sleeveless dress.  After service, I remember being with a group of
ladies and they all said to me that the dress I was wearing was
innapropriate for service because it had no sleeves on it.  And on another
occasion, while still a babe in Christ, I had cut my hair, and was once
again taken aside and told I was not to do this.  For several years I didnt
cut my hair, but it wasnt because of a conviction God gave me, but because I
was told not to do this.

And in another church I attended, we had people who would take it upon
themselves to take people aside and tell them they were wrong for certain
things.  Needless to say, some of them never returned. but the pastor did
have a talk with those individuals and the church about taking matters into
their own hands, and not letting God deal with the person.  I only wish that
someone had told those women who corrected me the same thing.

Lynn