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Originally Posted by ILG
I wonder if there's also no need to dress as UPC'ers in order to be modest and if dressing UPC can pose unneccesary stumblingblocks for people on the outside? Well, I take that back, because I know the answer. What do you think?
Also, I wonder how much the UPC does in the way of family life?
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The Anabaptists have the Apostolics beat in many areas. It's some of the surviving carry over attributes that illustrate what was, and is done correctly. However they have lost somethings along the way.
Does the Bible teach us to become and dress like the world to reach the world?
Or does proper separation help to distinguish, protect, and empower us to go in and reach the world?
Is there a way that we can both separate from the world, on the inside and out, without offense to God or man?
Righteousness doesn't appeal to everyone, and we must be very careful, and quite frankly, led of the Holy Ghost and not knee-jerk pretenses in these areas.
Many have gone too far in their endeavors to "reach the world," or is it sometimes nothing more than a cloaked, hip pocket excuse of convenience to live after their own ways and have more fellowship with the world than with God?
The plain dress sometimes fulfills proper function with respect to modesty, but often fails to make a righteous, or intended, impression on the English.