Posted on 03/09/2005 9:47:25 AM PST by qam1
My entire church, including the pastoral staff wears jeans. Are you seriously saying that none of us have respect for God?
"Unless you have respect for yourself and G-d, you aren't really worshipping Him anyway."
I respect God and I respect myself. Perhaps you shouldn't judge people you don't even know.
NOt a prob....
Nothing wrong with jeans. It's the dips who wear them that is wrong. If worn right they are sharp and neat looking. Cool too. Saw a young girl in a restaurant today with sweats on, shirt and the sweats were down below her naval and the shirt was too. Couldn't believe it but your description of a biscuit that blew up fits it to a tee.
I will make a confession here. I have a magic closet. Old clothes dissapear and new clothes manifest themselves withing the closet as needed. Luckily for me, the high priestess of the magic closet, learned a long time ago that clothes that I don't like, like slacks never wear out because they're never worn, and now the priestess only summons the clothes that I'll wear.
The key to the text you quote is the phrase "a poor man in filthy clothes." Like I said in at least one previous post, if the person can't afford, better, that is fine. But, in a church situation, where you know each other, and you KNOW the other person is NOT poor and they insist on dressing like a slob in G-d's house, it shows a lack of respect to the Holy Spirt, who is grieved by our disrespect; to the Messiah who gave His life for them and to His Father who is above all things.
I read an article on an artist in NY. He had a closet full of identical black clothes. He lived in this giant loft apartment that had nothing in it but a sleep mat, books, some toiletries and his art supplies.
The guy was pretty damn rich, but he really just wanted to paint and not be distracted. Kind of cool, actually.
Or you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Ever heard that one?
We have a section of the church (like a large walk in closet) which is filled full of dress clothes (for men and women) in various sizes for people who want to dress more appropriately for church but can't afford to do so.
How do you know about Ann Taylor then. VERY EXPENSIVE.
Whatever. I just don't go to "cocktail parties" and judge other people by the clothes they wear.
In your opinion, is someone who is attending their church dressed in casual clothes, or jeans (for example) a "slob"?
In one word: Yes.
You would have made a wonderful Pharisee.
Ann is my seamstress. She makes all my clothes for cocktail parties.
Wow. You really DO want to make poor visitors feel uncomfortable.
"We have a section of the church (like a large walk in closet) which is filled full of dress clothes (for men and women) in various sizes for people who want to dress more appropriately for church but can't afford to do so"
I assume you don't force these people to change their clothes in order to worship the Lord in your church. I hate to even think that you would insult someone by even suggesting that their clothes aren't good enough for you. If these clothes are just there for those who WANT them, that's fine. But wouldn't it be nice, in a perfect world, if rather than give a poor person your hand-me-downs, you would forego your own NEW clothes, so that they could have NEW ones.
You should read her profile where she says she wears muslim clothes. It made everything else make sense.
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