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I believe making external dress as a requirement for proper worship is wrong, period. We are missing the whole point of the Gospel when we start imposing dress rules.

Should women wear bikinis to Church--or at all? Is this allowed in your Church? Some people have to be instructed in sanctification and what it looks like. It does not come "naturally" too many, if any:

Example: There is a man I know that was saved. He was previously a cocaine addict and he ran a Tanning Bed supply house (which he later sold). These individuals (his wife was saved app 3 weeks before he was) knew nothing about the church. Never, I mean never had attended one. The first Sunday his wife attended she wore a ball-gown--a nice one, but it was sort of out of place in a small country Church (she did though have the right intent). He was accustomed to wearing real short shorts where certain things would sometimes appear (I am putting this as delicately as I can, ok). He wore these to Church on Wednesday's (and throughout the week at work). Until he was taken aside and shown it was improper, he did not have a clue. After he was shown the inappropriateness of such dress, not only did he stop wearing these "things" to Church, but to work as well.

IMHO, there is a difference in being instructed in sanctification and being legalistic, which is what actually I believe you are attempting to defend against. I would never throw someone out for wearing blue jeans, or the like, but none-the-less the teaching of the Word of God would go forth in love to teach people to "respect" a holy God, whom they claim they serve, with what they wear--but, not legalism.

If your best "dress" is not meant for God, then whom is your best for?


Reformed and Always Reforming,