To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
Tough call. I don't think it is the place of the church organization to mandate a dress code. It's generally something that is more or less unspoken amongst the congregation. I think that individuals should make reasonable effort to dress along the same lines, and that the rest of the congregation should certainly withold judgement upon someone in the congregation who 'doesn't dress the same' unless it is revealed that that individual is doing so just to excersize Christian liberty for the sake of excersizing it.
13 posted on
09/03/2003 8:10:38 AM PDT by
Frumanchu
(mene mene tekel upharsin)
To: Frumanchu
atter how we dress for worship?, Frumanchu wrote: Tough call. I don't think it is the place of the church organization to mandate a dress code. It's generally something that is more or less unspoken amongst the congregation. I think that individuals should make reasonable effort to dress along the same lines, and that the rest of the congregation should certainly withold judgement upon someone in the congregation who 'doesn't dress the same' unless it is revealed that that individual is doing so just to excersize Christian liberty for the sake of excersizing it. 8 years ago I was attending a church and was considering making it "my church". It was the summer so there was alot of casual dress, but what made me leave and never come back was a lady that was sitting ahead of me in church one Sunday . She had on short shorts that left very little to the imagination. Normally I would have noticed and ignored it more or less , except she had her teachers guide for teaching children's Sunday school. That was it I was out of there . If the church was unable to maintain some form of discipline over the teachers and allowed them to be immodest at church and act as a model for the children , that was not a place I wanted to worship
17 posted on
09/03/2003 8:19:07 AM PDT by
RnMomof7
(Saved by grace , Calvinist by choice)
To: Frumanchu; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; xzins; drstevej; RnMomof7
Litmus test: If they sing "Just As I Am" in church, they shouldn't be imposing or even thinking about a dress code that discriminates against rural folks and farmers.
Just my two cents...:o)
39 posted on
09/03/2003 11:50:28 AM PDT by
nobdysfool
(All men are born Arminians...the Christian ones that grow up become Calvinists...)
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