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Issues Being Debated In the Church: Why My Apparent Silence?
By
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD.

In recent times, I’ve received lots of emails, asking why I have been apparently silent on issues that are presently being debated in the church. I have been urged to write or add my voice. Here’s my three-fold answer:

1. Sometimes silence is as powerful as speech. We learn this from Christ’s example—when He consciously refused to speak on the problem of Herod and Herodias, after John the Baptist’s message to the renegade couple had been rejected by them:

“Christ might have spoken words to Herod that would have pierced the ears of the hardened king. He might have stricken him with fear and trembling by laying before him the full iniquity of his life, and the horror of his approaching doom. But Christ's silence was the severest rebuke that He could have given. Herod had rejected the truth spoken to him by the greatest of the prophets, and no other message was he to receive...

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CHRISTIAN DRESS & ADORNMENT

Why Try To Look Good, When You Can Easily Be Good-Looking?

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© Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD

Speaker: Excellence Bible Lecture Series

 

 

 

Introduction

We can generally tell the work a person does by how they dress (cf. doctors, UPS workers, nurses, prostitutes, schools people attend, etc.). We may even be able tell one’s religion by their clothing (Muslim, Sikhs, Nuns, Rastafarians, Amish, Adventists, etc.). More importantly, a person’s character is often revealed by their dress. Thus, the subject of dress and adornment should be of interest to Christians, since our outward appearance may say more about our faith than what we actually say.

 

The issue of dress and adornment should not only be of interest to women. It equally applies to men—especially in our changing times when men are beginning to dress and adorn themselves just as women.

 

Bodily adornment involves the use of jewelry (gold, silver, pearls, etc.), elaborate hair-dos, and expensive clothes to enhance...

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