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04-02-2013, 10:20 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
Good grief.
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04-02-2013, 10:23 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
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Originally Posted by hometown guy
I never said they have to wear a tie and suit but when we are going to worship the King then I think we should not dress casual cause its not a causal event. Now that being said if your best is jeans and that is "dressing up" to you that that's fine. I just don't like the casual mentality that people have toward God. My dad in the past year has came to church with me ( he only has been to an apostolic church a handful of times) and when he comes he will put on his button up Hawaiian shirt. To him that is putting on his best cause he is a tshirt or tank top kinda guy.
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The ONLY times I ever dress up (and by 'dress up' I am talking about full suit and tie and dress shoes) is 1) special banquets, 2) my wedding, 3) job interviews. And in those situations I am dressing to impress other people, not God. I would have gladly worn an Hawaiian shirt at my wedding.
Last edited by RandyWayne; 04-02-2013 at 10:45 AM.
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04-02-2013, 10:32 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
I've found I am many times closer to God just talking to Him while wearing nothing but my underwear.
I don't think God is impressed one whit by what folks wear to a building-based romanist 'church' system.
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04-02-2013, 10:33 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
I spoke too soon.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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04-02-2013, 10:37 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
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04-02-2013, 10:47 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
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Good grief.
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Now Cindy, you know good and well that the bible is quite clear that drinking coffee in church is not "reverencing" the "house of God"!
I can just see hometown guy at the sermon on the mount going around and checking to make sure no one is eating or drinking anything and that they have on their best clothes. LOL!!
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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04-02-2013, 11:05 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
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The ONLY times I ever dress up (and by 'dress up' I am talking about full suit and tie and dress shoes) is 1) special banquets, 2) my wedding, 3) job interviews. And in those situations I am dressing to impress other people, not God. I would have gladly worn an Hawaiian shirt at my wedding.
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I'm sorry you feel that way but when I got married 11years ago I wanted to dress my best. Cause I wanted everyone else to know that what I was doing was not a causal event and when I go to church I want to teach my kids that it is not a causal event that we are doing but it's something more.
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04-02-2013, 11:14 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
I wonder how many were dressed up for the "Sermon on The Mount." And what was Jesus thinking about when he took charge of the loaves and the fishes at one of His gatherings. Didn't he not know that you're not suppose to eat in church? Okay, so it wasn't in a building, but is the building what makes the church a church? Somewhere, at some time, we need to learn what the main things are, and simply work on keeping "the main things, the main things!"
And here comes another post, (probably by one of you....not me!) on what everyone thinks is "the main things!" How about this..... Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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04-02-2013, 11:19 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
We have an apostolic cowboy church in Apache Junction where the guys dress, you guessed it, in jeans, boots, and belts with huge buckles. The women look like they would be more at home on Little House on the Prairy than a typical OP setting. Occasionally, there are even horses tied up out front (but only part of the year because of the heat).
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04-02-2013, 11:31 AM
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Re: Hello, new here, and looking for some guidance
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We have an apostolic cowboy church in Apache Junction where the guys dress, you guessed it, in jeans, boots, and belts with huge buckles. The women look like they would be more at home on Little House on the Prairy than a typical OP setting. Occasionally, there are even horses tied up out front (but only part of the year because of the heat).
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I think I went to church with her. 
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