which kind of Baptist are you?

And me. We meet to worship God, not one another. He looks upon the heart. If I wear posh clothes, thinking to myself, "Everybody will look at me, and be so jealous!" can that be right? If I wear the "imitation posh" clothes of the second category, thinking, "These are great imitations! Everyone will think they are the real thing!" can that be right? If I wear the same clothes that I wear to dig the garden, and think, "Well, they will do; I can't be bothered to go to the trouble of wearing my best clothes!" can that be right?

 

I'm a mix of all the above!!!

 

I am none of those. I am a Baptist who loves lively southern gospel music with a piano, guitars, and any other instruments they want to throw into the mix--except drums. I wear a suit but only because I am the song leader and soloist. Wednesday night I wear blue jeans and sneakers.

 

Why must we categorize and assimilate everyone into groups. I know that was not the intention of this thread and I have no problem talking about what we wear to church. I wore a dress shirt and slacks Sunday, no tie or jacket. But I am so sick of being categorized and judged by association by people too lazy or indifferent to get to know who I really am. It is so much easier to look at what you wear, listen to, or read and say, "oh, I know all about you." If you took the time to get to know people you might actually start to care about them.

 

I am a Blue Jean Baptist and proud of it! I actually do wear jeans to church and am a very laid back and easygoing person. My husband says I go against the grain so to speak--I sure know I live life outside the box!!

 

According to what some have said, I'm an onery, stubborn, unpredictable, lazy, chronically late, irritating, Baptist, that they still love.

However, I told my bride, my sister-in-law and my late mother and my late brother that they wanted an impartial observation, here. :saint:
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They all said that that was an impartial observation.

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Ed

 

Sorry Nodak, I must have misunderstood. Or perhaps I just unloaded on your thread due to other frustrations.

 

I totally agree with you on that! I know I am against the grain kind of person and people who are with the grain might not get me but there have been so many people who once they saw what I was saying, understood and maybe even learned something.