You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well.

Acts 15:29

I grew up in The Salvation Army; my parents were Officers (or Pastors/Ministers), and no one does rules and regulations like the Salvos. We have rules for everything, and I remember reading the rules and regulations for officers that was written back in the 1800's, and there was even rules on how often a person should shower and even the dangers of sleeping with the window open.

I am not sure how these things would affect one's eternity, but I guess the authors had good intentions about the well being of the officers.

One of the dangers we face within our churches is that we start to influence peoples' lives with rules. We invite them to come into a relationship with Jesus, and once they have done that, we then start to tell them how Jesus wants them to live their life. And sure, we have a responsibility to guide new Christ followers in the ways of living a holy life (if that is possible), but we start to put pressure on people to DO certain things. We make people obliged to serve in certain areas, perhaps making them believe that they have to do certains things in order to make their lives better.

Let me encourage you to just let Jesus guide you in what he has in store for your life. Don't let people make the decisions for your life for you, but instead, allow God to speak to you. Let him guide you in what is right.