How Were You Treated When Becoming Conservative? [Archive]

Hoovie

06-14-2009, 10:02 PM

Just to keep some balance...

How were you treated when you started dressing conservative? When you started keeping outward standards - how did your Christian friends receive you and your new convictions? Did they respect you or belittle and openly dispute your convictions?

Was there room for you in their circle of friends if you did not judge all by latest fashion? When you wore more than Speedos and pasties at the beach did they label you a prude?

Perhaps more importantly - how did it effect you? Did it make you self righteous? Or did it cause you to seek out the issues and pray for any who were offensive?

RandyWayne

06-14-2009, 10:09 PM

27 years later I STILL get ribbed for not swearing......

Hoovie

06-15-2009, 07:58 AM

27 years later I STILL get ribbed for not swearing......

But was the scrutiny from other Christians or simply non Christians?

In particular I am asking those who were Christians in other denoms how they were treated when they started restricting some areas in life. Did you have to leave or were you welcome to exercise abstinence, moderation and simplicity without ridicule?

HopePreacher

06-15-2009, 08:03 AM

I couldn't say myself because I came from the very consevative and moved the other way.

Sister Alvear

06-15-2009, 08:23 AM

Well...let me see...when I stopped drinking coffee I started having a few sane thoughts but being here on AFF causes me to slide back down that slippery slope I drink it when no one is looking! ha...
Steven you are something else! Would love to meet you folks sometime...

ILG

06-15-2009, 09:19 AM

Just to keep some balance...

How were you treated when you started dressing conservative? When you started keeping outward standards - how did your Christian friends receive you and your new convictions? Did they respect you or belittle and openly dispute your convictions?

Was there room for you in their circle of friends if you did not judge all by latest fashion? When you wore more than Speedos and pasties at the beach did they label you a prude?

Perhaps more importantly - how did it effect you? Did it make you self righteous? Or did it cause you to seek out the issues and pray for any who were offensive?

My friends weren't Christian, but my Catholic mother and Presbyterian mother-in-law were not happy and thought what we were doing was over the top. They criticized a bit but it wasn't like it was never-ending. Eventually, they came to respect us and my MIL was baptized at our church and became Apostolic herself. She has also left now, having had a number of bad experiences in the Apostolic church. She is overweight, however and says she will never go back to pants. I told her that was fine by me. I didn't care one way or the other.

ILG

06-15-2009, 09:20 AM

27 years later I STILL get ribbed for not swearing......

I get ribbed for this myself. But I see no point in swearing at all. Seems ridiculous to me.

LUKE2447

06-15-2009, 09:57 AM

Swearing is nothing but a attention getting act for the most part. It's the flesh talking Jimmy!

*AQuietPlace*

06-15-2009, 10:01 AM

When we became "stricter" we were viewed by our former fellowship group as getting ridiculous, and accused of thinking we were more spiritual than them.

(there was some truth to that)

ILG

06-15-2009, 10:02 AM

When we became "stricter" we were viewed by our former fellowship group as getting ridiculous, and accused of thinking we were more spiritual than them.

(there was some truth to that)

I was always amazing when I was UPC that those more liberal than them were going to hell, but, God forbid you become more conservative either!!:nah

( Oops! LOL! I mean, I was always AMAZED!! )