Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
I was thinking about this yesterday.... what has become the most important - witnessing to the lost, or preserving a lifestyle? When preserving a lifestyle becomes more important to us than spreading the gospel of Jesus, we need to stop and do an evaluation. If the world starts being turned off by us because we are simply 'weird' in their eyes, and right off the bat they aren't interested in listening to what we have to say... we are being a great hindrance to the gospel, and our mission.
Next time you're at a park, or the mall, or an airport, look around. Many people who need Jesus. But if you tell the women that they must stop cutting their hair, wearing makeup, and must wear only skirts so that they can know Jesus, and be saved.... how many of them do you think will be interested? In our world today, that's just wacko and extremist. Tell them that they must love people, be faithful to their companion, help the poor, not steal or kill (you know, the things the BIBLE defines as SIN/good works), then you may have an audience.
It's not 1920 anymore. It's also not 1855, 1233, or 2125. It's 2010, and we have to spread Jesus' gospel in our current time. The men no longer wear cute knee-britches with ruffly shirts and white wigs, nor do they wear robes (unless they're judges), they don't wear leather moccasins. Pentecostal men dress in current fashions, it's simply not just or biblical to insist that the women can't. And women who need Jesus can see that. If we're going to witness to people, we have to meet them where they are, not insist that they adhere to our preferred dress code.
(this post is not directed at the thread, really, just a response that Mr. Steinway's post triggered)
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