(Posted on the Two-by-Two List on February 14, 2001)

Rose wrote about true love and she asked what do we have to try to do to win God's approval.....she also wrote, “We have to try harder to do the right thing.”

Yes, an 80 year old lady that professed all her life gave her testimony just recently and said she, too, has this fear of dying and not going to heaven, because she just isn't PERFECT enough.

My mom gave her testimony one Sunday and said she just needed to be more PERFECT.

Just being PERFECT would not make her eligible, she needed to be MORE PERFECT. A worker spoke next and she said, “You can't be more PERFECT, you can only be PERFECT.”

It would be like saying you want something to be rounder, it can only be round.

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1 CORINTHIANS 11

First Corinthians 11 has been a difficult chapter throughout church history.  There are some things that are hard to understand about this passage.

But examining and understanding the Jewish mindset will help us unravel Paul's reasoning. 

Tom Schroeder

offers transparency to the era of the

"BLACK STOCKINGS"

that were heaped on women as a requirement of going to heaven, as well as exposing the ludicrousness of such a requirement.

Christ Placed a HIGH VALUE on Women

Proverbs 31 Woman

Women desire to be beautiful.  However, many fail to realize that beauty begins on the inside and works its way out.  Learn to let God transform feelings of inferiority, insecurity, and inadequacy into the unshakable confidence that comes with knowing who you are as a child of God. Discover that:

• You are valuable and dearly loved.

• You are a beautiful new creation.

By Sharon Hargreaves
Friday, February 29, 2008

Some months ago  I was asked why I cut my hair, so I have tried to recall some experiences and conversations regarding the hair issues over the years.  At the end of this letter I will give reference to the transcription of an in-depth study on 1 Corinthians 11 done by MM Outreach Ministries of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. Website: mmoutreach@gmail.com or www.mmoutreach.org

It explains  some Jewish views from the Talmud which were the additional written  and oral laws, over and above the God-given Ten Commandments. Understanding some of these Talmudic additions is necessary in order to understand how they affected the Jewish Christians of Paul the Apostles day.  These added laws were, in fact, in opposition to God's Word. These are the issues Paul was writing to the Corinthians to answer the questions they were troubled about. The topic of 1 Corinthians 11 is about head coverings for Jewish men and women while praying or prophesying.  It has nothing to do with a daily rule about Christian hairstyles for men, married women, toddler, child, teen or single woman. The workers not only subverted the topic from veil to hair, but they added a new requirement that women’s hair be kept in a bun. The workers made women's hair style into a doctrine of proof of salvation.

By Sharon Jaynes

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It’s easy to be deceived and to become hostage to lies, especially those we tell ourselves:

    * I am a loser
    * Nobody loves me
    * I don’t have time to read the Bible
    * I’m not good enough
    * I would be happier married to someone else
    * My family would be better off if I were dead
    * Without an education, I’ll always be behind

The list goes on.

Sharon Jaynes, popular author, speaker, and Bible teacher, says that just as Jesus countered Satan’s lies with truth from God’s Word, so women today must use the Scriptures to counter those falsehoods that all too easily creep into their thinking. In this book, Sharon looks at the common lies women tell themselves and shows them how they can replace those lies with Truth.

“I’m Not Good Enough”...and Other Lies Women Tell Themselves is a handy reference tool that will help women renew their minds and think God’s thoughts rather than be swayed by the enemy’s deceptions.