Had he kept the meetings inside his house then the issue of building permits wouldn't be much problem. That's what got him convicted, not his beliefs.

Not everyone is equiped to raise a man from death after he falls out of a window in a bible study in an overcrowded room. That's why we have restrictions on how many can be in particular places at one time. It's a safety issue.

That said, he only had at most 20 people originally so it souldn't have been a technical problem. Firefighters were called because of safety issues but aparrently they were only warned and then ignored for a further 2 years until he built his church building (complete with signs out front).

I don't listen to rude shouting people on the street, and I don't read your posts either. If you want people to listen, stop shouting in their ears/eyes and maybe they will give you some attention.

To occasionally sin and feel bad for it is totally different from actively persuing and promoting the sin as acceptable.

So Example 3: Elton John decides to become a Christian but at the same time continues to promote homosexual agendas and live with his male partner in open sin.

Not the nails themselves no. It's the process of holding ones arms outstreatched supporting your entire body weight on the nails through the feet and ankles that wears a person out. When they relax they fall lower with their arms above head height with all their weight streatching them out, causing them to be unable to breath. In order to breath you must again put the tension on the ankles, causing more pain. Eventually the person cannot hold themselves up and so they die of suffication. That is why in the Bible the soldiers who wanted to hurry up the execution broke the legs of the theivs, so they would not be able to support themselves any longer. A brutal way to die. Death was it's purpose. The chant in the Bible was "Kill him" not merely hurt him.

Is it ever OK for someone to sin in order to maintain the greater good?

Tho many will try and argue that it is acceptable, before God every sin holds the weight and punishment of death.

and yet the full article has this comment:
"Dear Mary, I thank you for answering my prayers"

It still feels like idolitry to me dispite what Sister Annette Arnold says.
Either way, it IS necromancy. The talking to the dead.

Christians pray to God through Jesus Christ who is alive.
These people are prayng through a dead person and so it is necromancy. Directly forbidden by the Bible

It's a makeover, not a limb replacement. Same stuff, different paint.

As for bigger screens... the majority of people have them now. You can't even buy a new 15 inch monitor here. Technology changes and if it wasn't for SA keeping up with it there would be no video broadcasts as we'd all be on dialup speed internet still. In this case change is good.