Page 71 to not own expensive vehicles. to not own insurance. to not lock their car doors. to not lock the doors of their house. God’s will is for Christian women . . . to never wear jewelry. to wear a veil on their heads in church gatherings. to never cut their hair. to wear clothing that never exposes their legs. to be silent in church meetings. to never wear a bikini. The Limitations of Personal Conscience In Chapter 2, we discussed the conscience. The conscience is an internal guide into God’s moral will. However, the conscience is limited by knowledge. Every person has an internal line that is drawn by his or her conscience. If you cross that line, you have sinned. Yet because the line drawn by our conscience is limited by our knowledge, the line of some Christians will differ from others. Consequently, I may engage in a certain behavior that my
Perhaps you don’t drift the way that I do, but I constantly forget the deep hole of depravity from which the Lord’s mighty love rescued me. Drifting does not take any effort at all; just stop cultivating the knowledge of Christ, and the evil current of secularism does the rest. All passion for the lost seems increasingly a fading memory. Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, Paul willing to be cursed for the sake of his countrymen, those things become very remote to the point of being unreal.
John Miller