Hello I am a Christ follower

What is funny is that so many who propose the old ways of doing things also dress the same ways that prostitutes once did.

No doubt the most dynamic church I went to was a church pastored by a man who is still a surfer and dean of the school of theology in a well known seminary. He has written several books on discipleship. He still reaches people he surfs with. In that church were people who wore a suit and tie and others who wore flip flops. What made me glad was what I learned and the love people experienced. My dad who is quite antagonistic toward Christians experienecd something he had never experienced. He saw a churhc full of people who were happy to be there and loved each other. I told my wife one Sundat that out lives were changing just by the fact that we were there in their midst. Everywhere we have moved and look for a new church we compare a prospective church to that church.

A young person I brought one time told me that he had never been to church but if that is what church was like he would like to go to church. I was proud to call that church my church home because I was confident that the people would welcome and accept outsiders as they came but those people would hear the truth without any compromise.

 

That's what I want - I want the guy in the suit and the guy in the sweats to both have a great worship experience. I want them to both recogonize that it's ok to dress up (there is a place for that) and it's ok to be casual (there is a place for that). Sometimes it's the same place. I don't want either snubbed. God made me unique, He made you unique. We may worship at the same time. It may not be the same way.

Our church is fairly eclectic. We have two contemporary services going on at the same time we've got more traditional services going on. I use the term traditional loosely BUT there are more suit and ties in those services - less than their used to be and it's a bit louder with more IMAG and less hymnal. Our pastor minces no words - he preaches the Word strongly - to both the casual and the suit and ties.

 

I enjoyed the four videos. I didn't feel it was mocking exactly, but it was definitely stereotyping.

I can't imagine anyone would actually go to church dressed like the "Christ follower." Would they? Please say it ain't so ....

 

Yes, it is so.

 

LOL, amity, yep, seen them before, we have a few, and only a few of the suit and tie guys.
People ought to be able to wear which ever style of clothing they want, and not be called a pharisee if they chose to dress up.

 

Oh, golly. Why would they not at least dress up as well as they do to go to work? Like "business casual" mebbe? It is their day off and not worth the effort just to go to the house of God or what?

Maybe we just dress better in the south or something. I wouldn't answer my own front door dressed like that. I do see people going into other churches dressed less formally than we do in mine (women only wear dresses), but everyone is at least wearing their nicer clothes around here. BTW, only preachers wear suits. :laugh:

 

ummmmm Donna is in KY and I'm in NC. Those are fairly southern states

 

I liked it. It makes a good point.

 

Tim!!!

 

Well, blue jeans on Sunday night I can almost see. But this guy was in grungy sweats with uncombed hair and dirty sneaks, wasn't he? If I am remembering wrong, and he was in blue jeans and shirt, then in the immortal words of Rosanna Rosannadanna ...

"NEVER MIND"

 

Do your children wear suits when they visit you?

Style of dress is irrelative. Our church meets in a movie theater. I wore jeans and a long sleeve t-shirt yesterday, as did my wife. I'm not a big fan of shaving, either. I shave maybe twice a week. I have the perpetual 5 o'clock shadow most times.

 

We dress casual, not as casual as the guy in the video, most everyone in our church dresses casual. But I think if people want to dress up, wear a suit and tie, and carry a bible, they shouldn't have to be called a pharisee, like the other man in the video was.

 

Bingo!

Sometimes we come across those who think they are more enlightened who look down their noses at the old fashioned. After I'd watched all four -- that was kind of how I felt -- that the guy in the jeans thought he was just a tad better than his know it all brother in the suit. And of course we all know those who think the old way is the only way. (This of course is not to detract from Jesus as the only way!)

This is something we ALL have to keep before us - that we have arrived. Because it is PRIDEFUL and it will bite us and send us to the humble factory so fast . . .

 

My comment is not about who God loves more. You are right, it has nothing to do with what you wear. I have been known to pray in the shower, buck naked. Makes no difference, I agree.

My comment has to do with the lack of any sort of dress standard in America these days. Do we go to work in sweats and unshaven? Do our bosses tolerate that? I think where I live the standard for informal dress at the workplace is that you can wear nice jeans on Friday only, and they have to be nice. Other than that it is slacks and skirts. So I suppose that is the standard most people use in evaluating their church dress, too. That nice or nicer. I don't see people wearing jeans to church on Sunday morning. If someone showed up dressed that way it would be okay. They wouldn't be thrown out, of course! I just don't think anyone would show up that way! Or at least I haven't seen it.

Like I said, maybe it is different in other parts of the country.... If so, then fine. If that is okay with you, that is okay with me, for sure.