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I started pastoring when I was 25. We started a church in a mobile chapel that the state provided for us.One night an older preacher and his singing family showed up. I had known this man for some time so I asked his family to sing and asked him to preach.At that time, about 1975, it was still uncommon in the south to see women in a CoG with make up or jewelry. There was one visitor wearing make up and ear rings. This man preached on head balancers (ear rings). Naturally this visitor never came back. If I had that to do over I would have asked the brother to have a seat and I would have apologized for his remarks and assured the visitor this was not what we were about. Some years later this brother preached a tent revival in our town. My BIL attended a local Assembly of God church. His pastor visited the tent revival. My B-I-L asked what he thought about the revival. He said; well I never did find out what he believed in. I only found out what he did not believe in Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

My Brother this has been so prevalent in the COG and many fundamental churches, that our youth picked it up as 'GOOD Preaching' and many carried it on. Such a shame. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

I started pastoring when I was 25. We started a church in a mobile chapel that the state provided for us.One night an older preacher and his singing family showed up. I had known this man for some time so I asked his family to sing and asked him to preach.At that time, about 1975, it was still uncommon in the south to see women in a CoG with make up or jewelry. There was one visitor wearing make up and ear rings. This man preached on head balancers (ear rings). Naturally this visitor never came back. If I had that to do over I would have asked the brother to have a seat and I would have apologized for his remarks and assured the visitor this was not what we were about. Some years later this brother preached a tent revival in our town. My BIL attended a local Assembly of God church. His pastor visited the tent revival. My B-I-L asked what he thought about the revival. He said; well I never did find out what he believed in. I only found out what he did not believe in. When I was a kid here in Carolina, I remember my daddy talking about preachers calling ear bobs brain balancers. Man, they had some names for everything, didn't they? I found a paper I wrote for Girls Scouts when I was in 4th grade about what our church believed. It talked about holiness and that we did not believe in smoking, dancing, women wearing make up, jewelry or pants, or (my personal favorite) listening to jazzy music. LOL Hilarious but kind of sad that I didn't understand what we did believe in More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name

I think that sums up a lot of our experiences as youths

Re: Head balancers

Yep, they didn't listen to no jazzy music, but they shore would jam with Jimmy Swaggart a playin Jerry Lee's honky tonk style. Jimmy always railed agin rock music, but he play the exact style as his two cousins, Jerry an Mickey. Jerry and Mickey didn't play rock, brother...they were country through and through. And you know that was the very devil himself! Jimmy musta sanctified it before he played it. LO More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name

Yep, they didn't listen to no jazzy music, but they shore would jam with Jimmy Swaggart a playin Jerry Lee's honky tonk style. Jimmy always railed agin rock music, but he play the exact style as his two cousins, Jerry an Mickey. Jerry and Mickey didn't play rock, brother...they were country through and through. And you know that was the very devil himself! Jimmy musta sanctified it before he played it. LOL

Oh yes. And it was perpetuated. I know a family very well whose children were even held to 'higher' standards than a PK. Now out of a family of 12, those living are split down the middle. Some LOVE the COG and the others would become Catholic before attending. Pitiful legacy in that family. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/