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To: xzins
"That's what Tammy Fay Baker used to say about her makeup."

In point of fact, she didn't say that, about her makeup; she said that about her expensive shopping outings with money that came from people, many who to this day support her, so that's their problem (if they consider it to be a problem).

"But I still thought she looked like a hooker."

i always thought she looked like a middle aged woman who was fashion challenged, not unlike many women in many churches, some or even most of whom were objects of God's grace, yet still subjects of sombody elses' fashion opinions, which may or may not be valid.

"I always figured she should take seriously the words, 'avoid the appearance of evil.'"

Maybe if she and Jim Bakker had not come out of a "Holiness" tradition where external legalism took the place of the sanctifying Grace of God, and the arbitrary ordinances of man the restraint of the Holy Spirit, they would have had a ministry that would be to this day blessed. We will never know, (though Jim Bakker's recent, low profile work seems to indicate that this is the case). At any rate, i am not so foolish to equate a person's screen name with the content of that person's heart (being, even in the regenerate, full of evil and malice), nor with what God is doing in/with/through that person by virtue of His grace, and i really don't see the need to defend myself from the external charges, or opinions of anyone else in this forum.

If you have a problem with this matter, you should take it before God, as i don't do social work.

915 posted on 01/13/2003 6:58:33 AM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord
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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord; All
My mouse locked up, it posted when i thought it didn't, sorry about the triple redundancy
920 posted on 01/13/2003 7:04:05 AM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord
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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord; xzins
Maybe if she and Jim Bakker had not come out of a "Holiness" tradition where external legalism took the place of the sanctifying Grace of God, and the arbitrary ordinances of man the restraint of the Holy Spirit, they would have had a ministry that would be to this day blessed

Actually I thought Tammy looked like a hooker too..It was perhaps a reaction to the holiness tradition they came out of..

935 posted on 01/13/2003 6:47:43 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God)
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