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Rules, rules, and more rules
||May 10, 2008|759 reads
 

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Hudnall
May 10, 2008
lol....
11. Don't ever write in your Bible.
I would be in sooooo much trouble!!
Gene Boecker
May 10, 2008

I like 32 and 33 - especially together.

There are two types of "rules" - those given by God and those established by man to interpret what God said or the Bible intends.


I think it you can work with the eleven God given rules, the rest is of small consequence.

Cindy
May 10, 2008

ohhhhhhhhh my, I'm laughing! Raised Southern Baptist from back in the day when  women couldn't wear pants to church and dancing was a sin.......still laughing!!!! Cause I look at these rules and think about allllllllllllllllllllllllll that I've broken, LOLOLOL In fact, I've broken almost all of them!!!!!!! hehehehe, and God still loves me, hehehehehe

what about tattoos????????? There's one!!!!!

Voice in DC
May 10, 2008
Princess, I stopped myself at 61. Yep, tatoos was one of those rules, too...until I met a bunch of Bikers for Jesus who had more skin covered with tatoos than not.
Kathy
May 10, 2008
Great post, Voice!
bubs 4 Christ
May 10, 2008
This is Great! What a hoot. Yeah I have seen and lived through many of these rules. Thank Goodness we have migrated past most of them, cause I broke most of them too.
Shellie Polk
May 10, 2008
You forgot the one about women not wearing makeup.  That would truly be scary some days.
Voice in DC
May 10, 2008
Shellie, maybe that is where the veils got started ;^)
Cindy
May 10, 2008
ok, no makeup.........scaryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, lololol
What's sad is alot of these stick with us......when it became "acceptable" for women to wear pants......I was uncomfortable for a while
Ahhhhhhhh........another one, men and long hair! My husband had long hair to the middle of his back and a pierced ear. He ran the sound at church......that's what he used to do for a band and I sang in the band (pre-christian days)....and the little women at church loved his hair and one day a guest speaker came ( he had long hair)......here's my hubby up above us in the sound booth in the back corner and the speaker says " Well, I see where y'all put the long-hairs!"
Our pastor later said that my hubby really shouldn't have long hair! I looked at him with his short hair and dress suit and said " My hubby can reach people who will not even look nor speak to you because of how you look to them"......The youth minister was there and amened me, LOLOL
Voice in DC
May 10, 2008
Princess, you are right that these things stick with us for a long time. Some times I catch myself telling my kids things are suppose to be done a certain way, but I stop myself and ask why...
Cathy
May 10, 2008
15 and 16 !!!!    I'm out !!!!
Voice in DC
May 10, 2008
Don't forget #20 Cathy!
Cathy
May 10, 2008
Crap!
Dennis Howe
May 12, 2008

What about Country and Western backward????
I'm reminded about a book by Christos Yannaras, "The Freedom of Morality". He spends much of the book dealing with the "rules of the church" being based in the sociology of the group, and then drops the bomb...we are to live by the hardest rule of all, love. Then he proceeds to bring understanding about how love for God not only supersedes all other rules, but takes us farther than any group of man made rules can start to take us. Love becomes the proto-rule that moves us into fellowship with the Father. Cool huh?

I was also really amazed at how man of these rules i have broken, by accident, on purpose, or more often out of real rebellion......sigh.....

Voice in DC
May 12, 2008
...and above all these, love...selah.
Hudnall
May 12, 2008
LOL.. reading you all was tooo much fun!!
Cathy -you sinner- I LOVE YOU!!
Mike n Laura
May 12, 2008
Good point Voice! (it is clearer now too, thanks)
Brother Todd
May 17, 2008
Dude, you have no idea how many more I could add to that list.  I think what Jesus told the Pharisees:  "You tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.....You hypocrites, you shut up the kingdom of heaven in men's faces.  You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.  ..You travel over land and sea to win a single convert and when he becomes one, you make him twice a son of hell you are."  Matthew 23:4-15  I truly wonder how many we/I have prevented from entering the Kingdom of Heaven?  That is a sobering thought!  This is a fine post!  Keep preaching grace!  For whom the Son has set free, You shall be free indeed!
Voice in DC
May 17, 2008
Todd, it is sobering, isn't it?
Amanda and John Woolums
May 28, 2008
Wow. To quote Brian Reagan (pronounced reeee-gan), a pretty famliy-friendly comedian, "Those are some rough rules." And in Tootie's words, from Facts of Life... "I'd be in troub-leeeee." Number 40 is the funniest to me, because, well, I do express myself with hair color, and cuts, and extensions... etc.... I like to change it up, since it's one of those things that's "temporary" and won't harm myself or others. :)
DarkRadiance
May 28, 2008

Keep the Rule and the Rule will keep you, Voice.

Or if you want to put it on a t-shirt: Servo regula quod regula mos servo vos...I think

Voice in DC
May 28, 2008
Amanda, I am trying to convince my kids that I should dye the tips of my hair blue or green. I think it would impress the guys on Capitol Hill - whatcha think?

MD, touche!
Rob
May 28, 2008
SOOOOO very well said! Just know that there are a whole lot of us out here that have discovered the same thing you have!
Voice in DC
May 28, 2008
Rob, Amen. I suspect you are not talking about my desire to dye my hair ;^) I am in a church now that walks in grace. It is a beautiful thing. 
charles shanks
May 28, 2008
Actually the verse that says for the older women to teach the younger to dress modestly is a good one please star :0)
Voice in DC
May 28, 2008
Totally agree. There is nothing wrong with that at all. My point is that if you don't follow that your actions will NOT separate you from God.
Amanda and John Woolums
May 29, 2008
I think you should do it. It's temporary. Besides, though your kids may be "embarrassed", their friends will think you're the coolest dad ever. :D As of yesterday's post to this, I added highlights... and I'm planning on some summer "color." :D