[RnMomof7]

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

[Frumanchu]

I agree. There is a chorister in our church who wears short, tight skirts that I personally think are inappropriate. But because she's the daughter of the organist, who seems to have more sway than anyone in the church save the pastor, nobody says anything. (as a side not, I was secretly cheering when my newborn son puked over my shoulder and onto her little mini-skirt. she was appalled...she has no kids and has never been a 'kid person'). My understanding of the OP here was that modesty was not the question so much as casual attire. Fortunately, modesty (or lack thereof) is not really an issue at our church, which is also a rural church.