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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Absolutely...
Some fulfill the rule of law but miss the spirit. They are wearing a dress... fulfilling some technicality and yet they are as immodest as most any woman wearing pants.
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Digging,
I'm glad that you qualified your statement by the use of the word -
some.
I think it's a total broadbrush either way - pants vs. dress - when we are discussing the outward appearance.
A friend of mine who happens to be a Christian (pants wearer
) and the Mayor's wife told me that during one of her daily walks she passed by my house and heard me getting onto my children about something.
She said, "I was very surprised and impressed that you didn't use any curse words."
She uses them all the time and also heads up a local cell group from her church.
Some people don't have a clue regardless of what they wear. It's always a matter of the heart - in a dress or pants. I wasn't raised in this "standards" way and see more people, that grew up in it, opposing the issue more than those that come in from out of the world. Just my observation.
My stand would be - it would be very awesome to allow God to do the convicting of any standard a saint would carry and not qualify them as saved by a specific type of clothing.
We know that the world does see that we are Christians by our love for one another, but they will also know by our decency of dress. What is on the inside, will certainly be reflected on the outside, but I know that you already agree with that.
