For and Against
THINGS I AM FOR:
I am for our God, Yahweh, and His Son, the Word become flesh, Christ Jesus, and loving Him with all our heart, mind, body, and soul.
I am for the Bible as our standard of doctrine (teaching), congregational practice, family life, and personal holiness.
I am for the uncompromised Gospel: The Kingdom of God has come near and Jesus is Yahweh's anointed King of the whole Earth, Judge of the living and the dead.
I am for my spouse.
I am for being a spouse according to the Bible's standards.
I am for marriage, between a man and a woman.
I am for monogomy.
I am for dating my spouse in marriage.
I am for biblical manhood and womanhood.
I am for moderate public displays of affection.
I am for my family (including extended families).
I am for having children and building a family.
I am for working men, supporting their family as the head of the home.
I am for stay-at-home mom's, nurturing and taking care of their family.
I am for stretching ourselves and our children spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
I am for the Congregation, and especially our congregational family.
I am for good, solid, biblical exposition.
I am for communion as a full meal every time the Congregation assembles.
I am for Bible studies, prayer, fasting, giving to the poor and needy, discipling and being discipled.
I am for biblical theology.
I am for biblically sound Christian music (hymns, praise and worship, Gospel rap, etc.).
I am for Petra, and any other artist or band who elevates Christ Jesus in their lyrics.
I am for laughing and smiling.
I am for modest clothes.
I am for minimalism.
I am for a simple home (even if it's too small).
I am for home school.
I am for adoption.
I am for good home-cooked meals.
I am for supporting missions.
I am for purchasing our movies and music legally.
I am for free software (File Hippo, File Horse).
I am for Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora, LinuxMint, OpenMandriva, OpenSuSE, Mageia, Debian).
I am for being thankful for all that Yahweh has given us and all that He has not given us.
I am for preaching "the goodness of God" to convert sinners.
I am for infant baptism and adult baptism rightly understood and administered.
THINGS I AM AGAINST:
I am against the doctrines of grace, as they oppose the faith and practices of the first 300 years of Christianity.
I am against some, if not all, of the five Solas: solus Christus (in Christ alone), sola gratia (by grace alone), sola fide (through faith alone), sola scriptura (with Scripture alone), and soli Deo gloria (for the glory of God alone). 'Sola Fide' makes void several passages of Scripture, and ignores James 2:24, the only place to use "faith alone." 'Sola Scriptura' is a myth.
I am against sin in general.
I am against idolatry.
I am against pre-marital sex.
I am against adultery.
I am against divorce.
I am against abortion, the murder of children in the womb.
I am against disrespectful children.
I am against children running the streets at night like hoodlums.
I am against modern feminism and their hatred of men.
I am against female chauvinism and male chauvinism.
I am against homosexuality and all its variants (lesbianism, bi-sexuality, pansexuality, polysexuality, omnisexuality, ambisexuality, pederasty, et al).
I am against every trans- dysphoria (-gender, -sexual, -species, -ethnic, -abled, and -aged).
I am against pornography.
I am against pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, bestiality, zoophilia, incest, necrophilia and any other sexual abomination.
I am against women dressing immodestly in the name of "comfortability" in order to attract men's eyes.
I am against the silent treatment.
I am against physical, verbal, emotional and/or spiritual abuse.
I am against excessive public displays of affection.
I am against the sexualization of young girls (or boys).
I am against deadbeat fathers/mothers.
I am against lazy parents who don't want to do their job and parent their children.
I am against wife swapping (where some other man's wife comes into our home and looks after our children when their own mother should be doing it instead of helping some other man build his home).
I am against believers dating/marrying non-believers (especially in order to try and convert them).
I am against bullying.
I am against being in debt.
I am against gossips.
I am against freeloaders.
I am against stealing movies, music, games, software programs, cable, and Internet access.
I am against obsessive time-wasting social technologies (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, World of Warcraft).
I am against distractions that prevent people from interacting with other live individuals (e.g., habitually in front of a computer, game console, or television; or habitually on a cell phone or plugging ears with MP3 players).
I am against preachers who use the pulpit excessively for jokes and story telling.
I am against preachers who do not stand on the Word of Yahweh as mankind's sole authority, but instead desire to appease the culture and society.
I am against "hired hands" leading Yahweh's people instead of God-fearing, God-appointed "shepherds" who actually love the flock and want to spur them on to godliness and holiness before Almighty Yahweh.
I am against people who use Yahweh and the Bible for their own monetary and material gain.
I am against the lies of Dispensational and Calvinistic theology.
I am against the non-biblical gimmicks of asking the Lord into your heart, praying a prayer, walking an aisle, and signing a card in order to increase church attendance (but merely creates false converts).
This list will likely be added to as time goes by.