Does your church have strict dress codes?
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Actually, it is.
1 Timothy 2:9-10 [SUP]9 [/SUP]Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, [SUP]10 [/SUP]but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
The church at Ephesus had a problem with over dressing. When the rich show off their goods, it's an act of pride and arrogance. When people under dress, that's also and act of pride and arrogance, for they are showing off something else. When you go to show, both the outward and inward dress is wrong.
When anything is written to the churches, is the church's responsibility to fix the problem....... that means it is somebody else's business.
C
Yes, that makes sense, iTORE. Church should be the place where everyone is accepted no matter what they look like or dress like. For someone who's poor, their best outfit might consist of a clean t-shirt and worn out jeans. We all can't afford expensive clothes, so we shouldn't judge what other people might be wearing. Then again, maybe some people have a special reason why they could not put on nicer clothes for church. We should never judge by appearances. Jesus was poor, so that fact alone should keep us from judging.
The only clincher is when we KNOW that somebody we know is dressing poorly for no good reason. Then its up to us to decide whether its appropriate to bring up the subject with that person or not. But I think that should be the only time we should allow judgment to enter our minds.
The only clincher is when we KNOW that somebody we know is dressing poorly for no good reason. Then its up to us to decide whether its appropriate to bring up the subject with that person or not. But I think that should be the only time we should allow judgment to enter our minds.
J
This has always been a very touchy subject for me. When I was growing up, my family expected me to wear a dress every Sunday, but as far as I knew, this was just something MY family did. It was never an expectation I had for other people. It still isn't.
At the age of 17 I was sitting behind two older ladies I truly looked up to. A young Vietnamese woman came into the church (who barely spoke English) wearing a halter top and short skirt. She was a new Christian and did not know "the rules". Rather than taking this precious young one in Christ under their wings and guiding her lovingly into more modest ways of dressing, they chose to snicker and gossip about her. This deeply hurt my heart and, along with other things, made me question so many things about "church" to the point that I stopped going for a time(which was a HUGE stupid mistake on my part). I was just a kid, but I knew something was not right here.
What if she had heard them and it had caused her to stumble? We are accountable to Him for hurting His little ones.
People are important. Souls are important. Since mankind didn't even need clothes until after the fall, I really don't think they are all that important to God.
At the age of 17 I was sitting behind two older ladies I truly looked up to. A young Vietnamese woman came into the church (who barely spoke English) wearing a halter top and short skirt. She was a new Christian and did not know "the rules". Rather than taking this precious young one in Christ under their wings and guiding her lovingly into more modest ways of dressing, they chose to snicker and gossip about her. This deeply hurt my heart and, along with other things, made me question so many things about "church" to the point that I stopped going for a time(which was a HUGE stupid mistake on my part). I was just a kid, but I knew something was not right here.
What if she had heard them and it had caused her to stumble? We are accountable to Him for hurting His little ones.
People are important. Souls are important. Since mankind didn't even need clothes until after the fall, I really don't think they are all that important to God.
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dress up, but do so for the right reasons.
dress down but do so for the right reasons.
don't dress with the intent of being a temptation, Ever.
The widow's two mites were worth more than anything the Pharisee could bring. Pay attention to how you dress your Heart.
Whatever you wear, be clothed in righteousness, and for cryin out loud, burn the jeggins. This goes for you, too iTore.
dress down but do so for the right reasons.
don't dress with the intent of being a temptation, Ever.
The widow's two mites were worth more than anything the Pharisee could bring. Pay attention to how you dress your Heart.
Whatever you wear, be clothed in righteousness, and for cryin out loud, burn the jeggins. This goes for you, too iTore.
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IMO the concept of dressing up for church is pretty subjective. What is dressing up from my standpoint is dressing down from someone else's. I typically wear a nice pair of jeans and a dress shirt to church which figuring that 5 or 6 days a week I work in construction (I'm a painter) is dressed up, but of course for a professional that would be dressing down.