My husband told his work today that he will not move to the 4:30pm to 4:30am shift. It means that he will not get a raise, but he will be able to go to all the church services with us.

God is more important then money. God will continue to provide for us to live with what we have.

This means that we can go as a family to church on Wednesday nights. We can go with the church witnessing on Thursdays. We can attend all the missionary conference as a family. Revivals as a family.

Also what do you think of my new layout?

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Act 8:35  Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture,(Isaiah 53) and preached unto him Jesus.
Act 8:36  And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
Act 8:37  And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Act 8:38  And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

Yesterday at church we had 7 young people (ages 5-9) get baptized.  It was such a wonderful thing to see. I can hardly wait until it is my own children (ages 4, 5 and 6) getting baptized. I pray for their salvation every day. My daughter (6) does not yet totally understand Sin and salvation. I will be rejoicing when they understand and accept Christ as savior.

People who are to be baptized are believers. Repent and be baptized. When we get saved, we are putting faith and trust in Jesus. Baptism is showing others that we have been saved. Baptism should come after one has trusted in Christ.

Look at Acts 8. Before he could be baptized he had to believe. He believed. He confessed Jesus is the savior.

They went into the water. Baptism isn’t sprinkling or pouring. Baptism is actually going down into the water. You are showing the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
What you need to get saved is believe on Jesus. Baptism is just a step of obedience.

Act 10:47  Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Act 10:48  And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Baptize in the name of the Father, son and Holy Ghost.

Someone brought up accents. Everyone has an accent. What is yours?

Mine is Pennsylvania Dutch. Yes, I admit it.

Deitsch iss en
dialekt von deitsch aus Deitschland. (Deitsch is a dialect of
German from Germany.)
It is a West Central German variety spoken by 150,000 to 250,000 people in North America. It is traditionally the language of the Pennsylvania Dutch community. The Pennsylvania Dutch (perhaps more strictly Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvania Germans or Pennsylvania Deutsch) are the descendants of German immigrants who came to Pennsylvania prior to 1800.

Today, the majority of speakers are either Amish or Mennonite.

Examples of Pennsylvania Dutch pronunciation: house=haus (or hoss); once=vunc; you=yuh or du; why=vie; will-vill; the=the or de.

Many of the people who grew up here speak with an accent that is similar to
a German accent. W’s are pronounced like v’s, and v’s like w’s. A “b” at
the end of a word is often pronounced like a “p”; as in “Vorld Vide Vep”
(and hence the name “Bop” (bob) or “Boppy.(Bobby)”)
J’s are pronounced like ch’s as in “now wait chust a minute.” Often we
append an “ah” to a word; for example the word “no” is pronounced “noah.”
And often we append the word “once” to a sentence, and place a “t” at the
end of it. As in “Jakie, come here onct.”

You know you’re Pennsylvania Dutch, if …

• You’ve ever sat down to eat a meal at one of those restaurants inside
  the Green Dragon.
• You sometimes like to have pig stomach for your Thanksgiving dinner.
• You step outside in the Spring time and don’t notice an aroma.
• You know what a “wunnerfitz” is … and a “schnickelfritz.”
• You never tell people that rain is in the forecast; you tell them
  “they want rain.” And a torrential downpour is “really makin’ down”.
• Before going outside you ask “what’s it like outside?”
• You never clean your place. You “ret it up” instead.
• You always order your fasnachts ahead of time.
• When going somewhere you ask people if they want to “go with.”
• When you run out of brown sugar, you say “the brown sugar is all.”
• You reach for the salt and pepper before tasting your food.
• You put ketchup on your eggs.
• You know what’s in scrapple, and you eat it anyway. Yum yum!
• You save bacon fat in an old coffee can for later use in frying.
• You mix your pot pie dough with your hands.
• Molasses is the main ingredient in your pies, baked beans and medicinal
  potions.
• You put gravy on your pancakes …. and french fries.
• You know about the hazards of electric fences!
• Your kids get grexy now and then.
• You scold you children by saying, “You daresn’t do that!”

(The Lord’s Prayer in Pa Dutch)
Unser Fadder im Himmel,

dei Naame loss heilich sei,

Dei Reich loss kumme.

Dei Wille loss gedu sei,

uff die Erd wie im Himmel.

Unser deeglich Brot gebb uns heit,

Un vergebb unser Schulde,

wie mir die vergewwe wu uns schuldich sinn.

Un fiehr uns net in die Versuchung,

awwer hald uns vum Iewile.

Fer dei is es Reich, die Graft,

un die Hallichkeit in Ewichkeit.

Amen.

Come here “onct” AMOHL

It hurts me so in the BAUCH (belly, stomach)

Mind you-he went out BAWR-FEESICH (barefooted) in “Chanuary. (January)”

Give me just a little piece of BENDLE (string).

When you get done with your BIGGLA (ironing) let’s go in to town.

This country is full of dirty BISCOTZA (skunks).

Come here once just a BISSEL (little; short while), I want to talk with you.

That little fellow is the darndest BLABBERMAUL (talkative)-he sure takes the cake.

Good BREE (gravy, or juice) I always like on my bread.

The dear little BUBBELLY (baby) is so sweet-like; she is so nice-behaved.

Oh, boy, what I would give to have a BUSS (kiss) from her!

He’s always at the BUTTLE (bottle).

BUTZ (clean off) your “gums” (rubbers, or overshoes) before you come in the house.

My husband is getting so CRITTLICH (crabbed) of late.

It takes a lot of CROOSHT (crust) to “sponge” on your relatives all the time.

The little fellow is such a CROTTLER (climber).

You are so darn DOBBICH (or “doplich;” awkward). Du bisht so dobbich.

A person gets DORMLICH (“giddy, or dizzy) when he looks up or down the big buildings in the city.

We can be DONKBAWR (thankful) that we live in a great “countery” like the United States.

I never saw such a DRECKICH (dirty) child.

You are such a DUMMKUP (dumb, idiotic); why don’t you watch out where you’re going?

Some people like to DUNK (dip) their doughnuts.

It seems like such an EAWICHKEIT (eternity) ’till the doctor comes. You never seen anything get FAERTICH (finished) so quick.

Children soon get FERDARVA (spoiled) when you give them everything they want.

You are such a FERGESSLICH (forgetful) person -if your head wasn’t
fast to your body, I guess you would forget it sometimes, too.

The boy is too young yet, and he gets all FERHOODLED (tangled, or mix-up). D’r bu iss nuch tzu yung, und ar wart al ferhoodled.

The bed clothes are so FERROONTZLED (much disheveled, wrinkled, mussed).

She is a very good-looking FRAU (wife).

Ei, such a big FREUNDSCHAFT (relationship).

Them kids FRESS (eat) just like hogs.

When you get to know them right they are such FREINDLICH (friendly, affectionate) people.

I was clean GABOOTZT (cleaned “clean”) when I went to that house.

I’m nearly GABUT (exhausted; very tired).

Think, man-think; where are your GADONKA (thoughts)?

Stop! don’t give me any more; I have GANOONK (enough)!

Such talk at the table GREISLES (sickens) me; it would make you too.

There were so many people killed and hurt-it was GREISLICH (horrible).

You needn’t GREX (grunt) so; it ain’t that heavy.

My man G’SHNORRIX’D (snored) so loud he waked up everybody.

He just G’SHNOWF’D (breathed) a couple times, yet, hard like, and he just died, like.

Sometimes you hear of people who got G’WARRICK’D (choked) when they said such bad things.

That poor dumb girl is always in HASE-WASSER (hot water). Perhaps she didn’t know enough about
the ways of nature!

Did you ever see any person who got so many things HINNERSFEDDERSHT (hind-end foremost)?

Everything I do seems to go HINNERSICH (backward).

I always get so HOONGERICH (hungry) when I smell fresh-baked bread, don’t you?

and then I was IVVERNOOMA (overtaken).

Ei, we couldn’t guide it “werry” good and it got sort of
IVVERTZWAERRICI-I (crosswise) in the road; we said “whoa,” but it-
didn’t do no good!

Mommy, I’m so KRONK (sick).

If you couldn’t KROTTLE (crawl) over the pillow last night, how can you “krottle” over the fence?

If you KROTZ (scratch) some things they get worse.

I get so LADICH (tired) of him courting me so long; I wish he’d marry with me and have it done once.

The ORM-DRUP (poor child, or “thing,” such as a household pet)

She ain’t got a ROONTZEL (crease, wrinkle) in her dress.

You never saw a baby ROOTSH (crawl or squirm) so much.

The people of the country aren’t so RUICH (quiet, still), when election comes around.

You dirty little RUTZ-NAUS (snot-nose).

When a man eats too much on Sunday dinner he gets SCHLAFFERICH (sleepy) soon.

See here now “wonst”-if you don’t stay away from them
there ugly bad boys you’ll get such a SCHLAIG (whipping) like you never
yet got; now mind!

Give me that SCHNOOP-DOOCH (or “nose- wiper”; handkerchief).

Every fellow thinks he has a SHAE-MAIDLE (nice girl) no matter what others think about her.

That was SHAIDLICH (harmful) and SHENDLICH (disgraceful); you shouldn’t have done that!

I was so scared I nearly SHLOOK’D (swallowed) my Adam’s apple.

Come here now SHNELL (quickly).

Your gramp-pa SHNORRIX’S (snores) just like a pig.

A SHTROOVELICH (uncombed

Come in and have a SITZ (seat).

The boy didn’t want to SPRITZ water on the old man but he got mad anyhow.

The poor kids have such STROOBLY hair.

Some people are just that way, but some are UNGLICKLICH (unlucky).

Tomorrow we all go to the VENDUE (public sale or auction).

You ought to see my boy since his operation; he eats like a little WUTZ (” wootz;” pig).

When I stood up on the platform to make a speech I got so BEFUDDLED (mixed-up; excited; unable to think).

He BLABS (tells) everything he hears.

You’re got the thing all BOOGHERED-UP. (mixed ,damaged).

Are you still CROSS AT ME (angry)?

Mom says I DASSENT (dare not) go out to play.

Give me some DIPPY (gravy, dressing)! I like DIPPY BREAD.

If you don’t get away from under my window with your loud talking, I’ll DOUSE you with the pot water!

You need a little more ELBOW-GREASE (some additional strength).

My husband knows when he has ENOUGH TO EAT, ALMOST (has had his fill).

The poor HOMMY (calf) wants its mamma

IT MAKES A BODY (a person) TIRED to hear of SUCH GOIN’S ON.

MAKE the door shut. Moch de deer tzu.

OUTEN the light; or, MAKE OUT the light

Her baby SLOBBERS so (has too much spittle running from the mouth).

He wants UP; i. e., the baby would like to be held, or carried

WHAT DOES IT GIVE for dinner? Wos gebt’s fa middawg-essa?

My goodness, you didn’t COME CLEAN (all the way) FROM Pittsburgh to Harrisburg?

I have two new aprons. They are really big. Like three sizes bigger then me, but that is how I love my aprons. I don’t like them tight. I like them loose so that I can work easy in them and they aren’t restricting. As you can see I can even wear a sweatshirt under them. I know the pictures aren’t the best. I took them using the timer on the camera and took them really quick.

I really like the colors on this one.

This one you can see well on the picture but it is white with green design all over it. It is really nice too but I like the first one the best.

We live in an old building. It has been in our family for many many years. My great grandparents lived in this house until they moved across the street when my grandparents moved in as a young married couple. My father was raised in this house along with his two sisters. My grandparents raised me in this house.

This is a picture of the house when my dad was little.

This is what the house looks like now. Aluminum siding was added before I was born and the back porch was added in the 1970s



This used to be a Gerber clothing factory, back when Gerber made clothing (not sure if they do anymore). It is now Ephrata Christian Fellowship Church (Charity). It is nice to see it used for something like that. It sat with out being filled for too many years. It is also nice that they used the existing building and didn’t tear it down.

 
The old Hospital and before that Mountain Springs Hotel. Sad to say much of this was torn down.
The original structure on the property is called the Konigmacher
mansion, and was built in 1848 as a resort.
At its height, the hotel
drew more important guests including nineteenth century presidents (including President James Buchanan) and numerous
other figures of national and statewide influence. The hotel was listed in the
National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The property was bought from Mr. Von Nieda in the mid-1930s by a
group of “Spiritualists” called Camp Silver Belle, with the intention of
creating a hospital. 

Then, on June 20,
1937, the Silver Belle publication Spiritual Truth announced that the Camp was
establishing the Stephan Memorial Hospital at the old Mountain Springs Hotel.
The group was dedicating the hospital to the Stephans, who had since died. The
hospital occupied that portion of the hotel known as the mansion, once the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Von Neida, who had operated the resort before
its sale to the spiritualists, who actually manned the newly set up hospital.
The place was supervised by Mr. Henry Munch, with Mrs. Munch as assistant and
director of nursing. At the dedication the nursing staff consisted of Laura
Shirk of Ephrata and Mary Einwechter of Audubon, New Jersey. The hospital was
declared a non-profit organization, all monies accrued beyond actual running
expenses to be put back into the institution in the form of buildings and
equipment. Future plans in 1937 called for a hospital of brick or concrete block
facing Spring Garden Street.

On May 31, 1940 the
Court of Common Pleas in Lancaster granted a charter to the institution to be
named the Ephrata Community Hospital.

In this first
Ephrata Community Hospital, still in the buildings of the old Mountain Springs
Hotel, the physical arrangement was as follows: the administration office was
located in the west side of the building facing town, overlooking the park-like
lawn fronting it. The space was enlarged soon after Dr. Riffert arrived by
enclosing a porch. Next to this space, really a part of it, was Dr. Riffert’s
very small office and examining room. In this cramped office Miss Ethel Pepple,
R.N. worked with patients’ accounts. This was also her director of nurses’
office. She was also anesthetist, laboratory technician (before the arrival of
Grettle Hirshfield, who, incidentally, had received her early technical training
in a hospital in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany), and X-ray technician.

The operating room
was to the rear of this old building, near the entrance for incoming ambulance
patients. Through its door came patients, doctors, and anyone else who worked or
had business in the hospital, as well as supplies. The small emergency room was
really adjacent to the operating room, almost a part of it, so that any patient
coming in for emergency medical or surgical treatment was actually seen in the
environs of the O.R. A curving driveway led from Spring Garden Street, behind
the building, around to this doorway. A short distance beyond the door a hallway
led past an autoclaving and sterilizing room to the kitchen.

The building was
heated by a coal furnace almost directly beneath the O.R. and kitchen. In the
floor of the hall leading past the sterilizing equipment was a trap-door, fairly
close to the outside door. When coal was to be delivered the truck would drive
up and the outside door would be opened and then the trap-door. Coal would then
be chuted to the cellar. One can imagine the problems involved in keeping those
vital areas clean.

Mr. Walter A.
Fabian was janitor, maintenance engineer, errand man-a man of all jobs. He was a
thoroughly energetic worker and helper, even carrying around litters to the O.R.,
up and down stairs, etc. He also did the laundry in the cellar. Fabian, a member
of the spiritualist group, lived in hotel property in a house behind the
hospital. Mrs. Fabian was a reader for the spiritualists and a medium.

Surgical patients often walked to the O.R., were wheeled partway through narrow
doors and hallways, or were carried on litters. Patients returned to their beds
after surgery in a like manner. Caesarian section patients had to be carried
upstairs by the doctors in attendance, nurses, and Walter Fabian. The stairs
were narrow and cramped. There was no elevator.

On the first floor
there were about ten surgical and medical beds, including one three-bed ward,
whose furnishings incidentally cost $486.75, according to information on the
early expenses of the hospital. Four to six obstetric patients were accommodated
on the second floor in small rooms with narrow doorways and corridors. The
delivery room was also upstairs, of course, small and cramped, with the
scrub-sink right next to the delivery table. A small eight-crib nursery
(bassinets) was off the hall to the delivery room, a nursery that was full most
of the time. Through its windows proud fathers, among whom I number myself,
first gazed on their children. My daughter was born in this hospital. Her
mother, and the other women so confined, were constantly in fear of the old
building’s catching fire, for the means of exit were at best inadequate. The new
mothers were kept in bed after delivery routinely from nine to ten days, after
which they were permitted to walk down the long narrow corridor past the nursery
to the toilet. But some had grown so weak after the long time spent in bed that
they fainted on the way. Even in totally normal, uncomplicated deliveries
obstetric patients were usually kept in the hospital two weeks before being
discharged.

The hospital’s
other facilities were adequate, considering its size. The X-ray room, whose
equipment had cost $3,511.63, and a laboratory were on the first floor. Also on
that floor was room with a fracture bed, which had cost $462.20. The kitchen had
been outfitted for $421 .00 and the laundry for $161.00. The ambulance was
supplied and kept in service by the local American Legion, Post 429, a service
continued until about 1960.

By 1947 the need for new hospital beds was critical, although the 16-bed
hospital on Main Street continued to serve the community. Between May 1946 and
May 1947 the hospital cared for 58 medical, 414 surgical, 280 obstetrical, and
267 newborn patients.
By July a site for the new building in the Arlington section of Ephrata had been
chosen and the plot had been bought for $12,350.

Transfer of patients from the old hospital to the new began on the following day
and was completed two days later.

 The
Burkholder Building.
George Wise added a three-story brick addition in
the 1870′s to his residence at 105 East Main Street, which became
107-109. He operated a brickyard and was responsible for many of the
brick buildings on Main Street.
What’s There Now: Jackson Hewitt Tax Service

I know people have been wondering if I am ok because I have been missing from my blog. I have even had some email me and ask. I am happy to know I am missed. (I have had a migraine since Monday that will not go away) I planned to write something today. I actually have the study all written out in my bible study note book. I am not sure I will have the time though as I am deep cleaning the house today because I want it spotless for tonight when the assistant pastor visits our house.

I love you all and will be back online tomorrow like regular. And will post my study then if I dont get it done today.

Thank you all for caring and asking if I was ok.

36% of the book of John focuses on one day. The day of crucification.

It is a free gift. We deserve death.

Will you remain in your sinful state and be under
the condemnation of God (Jn. 3:18; 36), or will you confess to God the
Father that you are a sinner, ask for forgiveness of those sins and for
Jesus Christ to come into your heart? According to Romans 3:25 and 5:9,
Jesus Christ has already paid the penalty for our sin; all we need to
do is confess our sin to Him (1 Jn. 1:9) and receive His gift of
eternal life (Ep. 2:8). If you will do this, according to God’s Word
you will be saved for all eternity (Jn. 3:16; 1 Jn. 5:11-13).

Dear one, right now, where you are, will you allow
Jesus Christ to lift you from the pit of sin? Will you take your
burdens to the Cross of Calvary and leave them there? Won’t you receive
Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour today? I plead with you to do so.

God has given you this heartbeat, this breath, this
moment in order to trust Christ, but there is no promise of another. I
beg you do it right now, and then claim Him as your Saviour.

One
who trusts Jesus Christ as personal Saviour should publicly claim Him
before men. “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:10).

After
trusting Jesus Christ you should join a church and be baptized. I hope
you will find a good Bible-believing church and attend faithfully.

God bless you.

I would love to hear from you if you have accepted Jesus as your savior. Feel free to send me a message.

Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed

Alas! and did my Savior bleed, 
and did my Sovereign die!
Would he devote that sacred head 
for sinners such as I? 

Was it for crimes that I have done, 
he groaned upon the tree? 
Amazing pity! Grace unknown! 
And love beyond degree! 

Well might the sun in darkness hide, 
and shut its glories in, 
when God, the mighty maker, died 
for his own creature's sin. 

Thus might I hide my blushing face 
while his dear cross appears; 
dissolve my heart in thankfulness, 
and melt mine eyes to tears. 

But drops of tears can ne'er repay 
the debt of love I owe. 
Here, Lord, I give myself away; 
'tis all that I can do.  

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

When I survey the wondrous cross 
on which the Prince of Glory died; 
my richest gain I count but loss, 
and pour contempt on all my pride. 

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, 
save in the death of Christ, my God; 
all the vain things that charm me most, 
I sacrifice them to his blood. 

See, from his head, his hands, his feet, 
sorrow and love flow mingled down. 
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, 
or thorns compose so rich a crown. 

Were the whole realm of nature mine, 
that were an offering far too small; 
love so amazing, so divine, 
demands my soul, my life, my all. 

I will post my thoughts in a bit but I would love to hear your thoughts………

Does the denomination matter? Does it matter to you? Will you always have to be affiliated with the
same denomination no matter what? Or if you are in a non denominational
church, is
there a reason why?

have you ever attended or belonged to a church that had rules (either
explicit or implicit) about things like the way you dress, what forms
of entertainment
were or weren’t allowed, etc? how did it make you feel? how did you
respond? were these rules that would cause non-Christians to avoid your
church? if your church has rules regarding dress, music, alcohol, etc, do they back it up Biblically?

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ok….I will answer my own questions but would still love to hear your answers……

Does the denomination matter? Does it matter to you? Will you always have to be affiliated with the same denomination no matter what? Or if you are in a non denominational church, is there a reason why?

I love Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Churches. You know basically that they all believe basically the same thing but they are independent and are not controlled by some denominational headquarters on the other side of the country.

But the demonination doesn’t really matter to me. I need to feel comfortable where I am. I wouldn’t feel comfortable in a jean wearing, rock/contemporary music playing, modern version using, entertainment oriented church no matter the denomination.

And I think I would be pretty comfortable in any Bible strong preaching, women dress to church wearing (I am dresses/skirts only but the church doesn’t have to be), hymn singing, KJV type church no matter the denomination

ok on to the next set of Questions……

I think churches should have rules for their members and enforce them. I think it is biblical.
Rules are for members not visitors

Some that I can think of would be (hope you still all love me after you see my list of church rules that I believe in):

BIBLE VERSIONS – It is of keen interest that all pastors, speakers, teachers, missionaries, and evangelists use the King James Version of the Bible, or a Bible translated from the same line as the Received Text.

CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN MUSIC – In light of the modern trend to use and adopt contemporary Christian music (CCM) it is imperative that the church hold to the traditional music standards and do not compromise the ministry with rock music.

DRESS CODE- that women do not wear pants and that men do not wear shorts to church. modest below-the-knee length dresses along with long hair, and that men wear dress slacks (no blue jeans) and wear a shirt and tie, and maintain a short hair cut. Modest dress means not form-fitting, see-through, low-cut, or revealing.

MEMBERSHIP – that every activity of the believer ought to be under the auspices of his local church. Each believer should be an active member of a Bible-believing church.

CHARISMATISM -we must reject the modern charismatic movement with its tongues speaking, false healings, and emphasis of the Holy Spirit over Jesus Christ.

DIVORCE IN THE MINISTRY – divorce or marriage to a divorcee disallows the privilege to be in the ministry, i.e., as a missionary, pastor, evangelist, or deacon. (This does not mean that divorced people cannot do the work of the ministry, but they should not serve in official capacities.)

BIBLICAL MARRIAGE – marriage is a legal and sexual relationship between a man and a woman, who become husband and wife. Any other sexual relationship between a man and a women outside of marriage is unacceptable, non-Biblical and will not be tolerated in the membership of the church. The Bible does not recognize homosexual relationships as healthy, sound, viable marriages or families.

REGULAR ATTENDANCE – Regular attendance is necessary to be a member

ALCOHOL – no drinking alcohol

SMOKING – no smoking allowed

Those are the ones I think of off the top of my head.

I believe in Churches having true set rules (for the members) and enforcing them.