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April 23, 2007 Unbelievably it is almost the end of April and before we know it, summer will be upon us! Time passes so quickly and when I hear people who wish for time to speed up, I think that surely it cannot go by any faster. With this in mind, I want to say a few things about our letters page. It seems that there has been a little evil being lurking within our new website sucking out all those letters from readers who dare and try to leave a letter. As a result, some of the letters this week may be a tad older than just this last week. Again, our deepest apologies for any confusion, annoyance, or dissatisfaction—you have no idea how frustrating it can be for us!
Re: “Apostolic Women: A Heart-Based, Not a Hair-Based, Modesty “
Wow; very well said. Thank you.
Julia Manners, New York
Re: “Tommy Tenny Oneness“
Thank you for your article. My Lord revealed to me about His Oneness. I believe there is a Father, Son and Spirit. I was always lost with the Trinity, as people told my husband and I, it was a mystery. Could not swallow that so then one day in the loo actually the Lord revealed to me this great truth, so I feel people who criticize this man’s Oneness belief have not had their eyes opened or don’t want to see it. It will come only by revelation. But it’s lovely to read your message of ‘don’t condemn this man.’ I know nothing else about him. Like us all, got some right but lots others wrong. What a wonderful God we serve.
Elaine deBeaux, Australia
Re: “TV or Not TV? That Is the Question“
Though my thoughts might change in the future, here is my very brief and current opinion of the TV advertising and TV ministering issue: I am partially concerned the fact this issue has already become politicized will harm objective consideration of the matter. I am for any technology which will truly help the church. We already have internet and webcast, podcasts, and suchlike where we are in more control of the content we display and search for and so on.
Concerning the TV advertisement issue, my concern is that either by requirement or temptation, Hollywood will eventually manipulate the church to meet Hollywood standards. I look at it like gambling at Hollywood’s casino. I think the legitimate appeal to minister on or advertise on TV is also similar to the appeal to gamble. For my part, I am currently more convinced it will cause more damage than genuine good.
I will also say, I have friends that I hope to remain friends with that are on either side of the issue, and I respect their sincere opinions either way though I might disagree with them. Also, by my mention of this topic, I am not trying to pry a response from you. I am just sharing my thoughts, and I hope it is in no way offensive to you. May God Bless.
Rev. Ernest Murphy, Texas
Re: “Kristyn Leigh - Holiness”
I was saved and called into Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal Holiness when I was 34. I have been cold turkey free of drug addiction for 27 months in a row, after battling with drug abuse that lasted for 12 years; the Lord Jesus Christ set me free and brought me into holiness when I had lost hope of holiness and resolved myself to die in sin and drug addiction. I wasn’t healed of drug addiction until I accepted that the Lord God Jesus Christ was a holy God, and that I shall be holy as he is holy, not by works but by the power of the gospel and denying myself daily and yielding to the Comforter.
I was involved in all sorts of underground music waves, including techno and drum and bass, but I can’t listen to this music much anymore because, in my experience (that type of music) ‘evaporates’ the anointing. It’s not that techno, or garage, or grunge, or rock music is just of the devil, it’s hard to separate the fact that there is no anointing in these genres even when an Apostolic or Trinitarian records these styles. They might be a useful evangelistic tool but it would only be leading the soul of that individual to a consecrated life.
So what I’m trying to say is that praise God that Kristyn Leigh is a professing Apsotolic, but where is Jesus in her song lyrics? The song “Bulletproof Girl” and accompanying video lack any anointing whatsoever and are an example of worldliness that destroys the call of holiness. To refer to your brothers and sisters as holiness police is in my opinion treading a fine line to promoting worldliness. It’s not right to call us police just because we don’t condone makeup, hair cutting, and trouser wearing. I believe that we are not to be conformed to the image of this world. So whether we are holiness police or not we are trying to remain separate and trying to call young people and old alike to the mantle of a separated and Holy Spirit-filled life.
If Kristyn doesn’t want to sing her songs to church people then I pray that God shows her that nowhere in the Bible is there a call to take her church music to the lost, but that the lost are to come to church—to hear the gospel. Music isn’t for evangelizing but is solely dedicated to glorifying God and worshipping the creator. Preachers are evangelists and Apostles in accordance with the word of God. There is no biblical example of using music to reach the lost; we are to remain holy and separate for God’s glory. If you and Kristyn have received some extra biblical revelation about singing in clubs and bars, please fill us in on your ‘revelation’ so we can compare your practice with the directives of the scriptures. Maybe the ‘Holy Spirit ‘ spoke to you to go into the world and dress like them and make music like them? We would question that not as police but as concerned brothers and sisters who have seen thousands backslide from your position of pseudo-Christian liberty in the guise of evangelism.
Take care, and anything that you do in word or deed do it in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Karl Villani, South Australia
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