My church is casual. My husband wouldn't go to church when he had to dress up. He'll go to our current church because you don't have to dress up.
I still dress up, and I dress up our kids because that is the way I was raised.
However, I would much rather someone come to church in shorts, than to have someone not attend church.
I live in California, and it is hard to get people to go to church out here.
Again, my point. Putting one's personal comfort over service to the Lord means the focus is on you, not Him. Your "felt needs" above His worth. Your "purpose" over His demands. Otherwise, you're just playing church.
1) Is it better to worship irreverently than to not worship at all?
2) Is the point of a worship service to make people comfortable, or to surrender yourself and all that you've been given to the Lord?
3) Where does it stop? Pajamas? Underwear? Nothing at all? Why not? You've already stated that it doesn't matter, just as long as they're in church, right?
Should I drink a coffee during the service? How about a Mountain Dew? A beer? What's the difference, just as long as I'm physically there, right?
Either approaching the Lord, the Creator if the Universe, our Sustainer and Provider, the Holy One, in reverence and awe is important to you or it's not. You decide for yourself, but I choose not to take my faith and worship casually.
>>I live in California, and it is hard to get people to go to church out here.<<
The problem is the person, not the church. That's a concept that the seeker-sensitiviy churches can't grasp. You don't alter the worship service to suit man - man has to be altered in order to worship.